Code error

It is supposed to be std::endl. It's a lowercase 'L' at the end, not a 1. Yea, it's tricky in those books [wink].

HAHA!. thanks mate i swear it looks like a 1 but lol

In Dev-C++ go to New->Project and chose Console project. That'll make you a Hello world application [wink]

Also, it is a lot better if you write "using namespace std" at the begining of your application, so you wouldn't have to write std::cout and stuff, only cout

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Original post by gcsaba2 Also, it is a lot better if you write "using namespace std" at the begining of your application, so you wouldn't have to write std::cout and stuff, only cout

Oh no, I would strongly reccomend against that buddy [smile]

1 more thing when i run the program the dos window opens up with "hello world" in it but then imediatley closes. how do i stop this?

Add a system("pause"); at the very end before it returns. Dev-CPP does this automatically with their default Console projects. Go ahead and give that a try as well. Go to file New->Project and select for it to be a console. It will give you a basic enample to work with as well. Good luck learning C++!

thanks for your help guys.

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Original post by Drew_Benton Add a system("pause"); at the very end before it returns. Dev-CPP does this automatically with their default Console projects. Go ahead and give that a try as well. Go to file New->Project and select for it to be a console. It will give you a basic enample to work with as well. Good luck learning C++!

To be more accurate, Dev-CPP invokes the "pause" command on your system after running your program.* Relying on system("pause") - or the system command in general - is not such a good idea; it basically behaves as if that input argument were typed on the command line, or in a batch file - which is where commands of that sort should go.

For console apps, the best solution is generally "don't worry about it in your program; make a wrapper instead". This way, you avoid one source of platform dependence in the app, avoid having Dev-CPP "pause" twice at the end* (a minor annoyance while testing), and Use the Right Tool for the Job(TM). Specifically, suppose you have "mygame.exe"; in the same directory, you would make a text file containing the following:

mygame.exepause

and rename it as "mygame.bat" or something like that. Then double-click the batch file in Windows to run the program (and invoke the pause at the end).

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Also, using namespace std; is fine in your source file. You should not use it in header files, however.

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* Er, I think that's what was meant. I don't actually have Dev-CPP. The other possibility is that it gives you a template for a source file with system("pause"); filled in at the end of main(). If that's the case, then ignore my ranting here - and apologies to Drew - but many harsh words for the Dev-CPP people [wink]