From: jason_hsu AT my-deja DOT com (Jason Hsu) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: THANKS and a question on "using namespace std;" Date: 24 Nov 2001 09:00:57 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 13 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.18.171.165 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1006621257 23901 127.0.0.1 (24 Nov 2001 17:00:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Nov 2001 17:00:57 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Martin Ambuhl: Thanks for your suggestion on adding the "using namespace std;" line. This was EXACTLY what I was looking for. Now my compiler recognizes the string functions of the "#include " line. This answer raises new questions. What exactly does "using namespace std;" mean? Why didn't I need it before on what I suspect was an earlier version of DJGPP? If a new version of DJGPP requiring this line was added recently, why was the change necessary? It threw me for a loop. Jason Hsu, AG4DG jason_hsu@@@yahoo.com