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From: manni DOT heumann AT gmx DOT de (Manni Heumann)
Subject: Re: Vector problem
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In article <20000214230117 DOT 03930 DOT 00001183 AT ng-ce1 DOT aol DOT com>, kngaru AT aol DOT com (KNGARU) wrote:
>sort of . . .
>This doesn't work, granted there may be some problems to it, but I keep getting
>errors I have no clue what to do with.
>Here's the program:
>#include <iostream.h>
>#include <vector.h>
>#include <stdlib.h>


For a start, change iostream.h to iostream and vector.h to vector (drop the 
h).

>
>int main()
>{
>vector<char> word(10);     //ten letter word
>int k;     //counter
>char letter;     //no need
>while(cin>>letter) //input letter by letter . . . one step at a time  
>{
>word[k]=letter;  //puts the letter in the current index of the vector
>k++;     //increases counter
>}
>cout<<word<<endl;     //SHOULD OUTPUT THE VECTOR
>
>EXIT_SUCCESS;   //stdlib.h
>}

You are trying to use a vector as a string. This might be a good way to learn 
to use vectors, but string is already there.
I guess the errors you are getting are about the operator ostream<<vector 
<char> being undefined. 
This is correct. If you want to output a vector, you will have to provide your 
own operator, because the compiler simply does not know how to output a 
vector. Maybe you should wait with this and take one step after the other.
What you can do, is output the vector bit by bit, like so:
for (int i=0; i<word.size(); i++)
        cout << word[i];
This will work because the compiler knows how to output a char.


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Manni