Variable length array of non-POD element type 'string' (aka 'basic_string') c++

Question

I get this error in my c++ code Variable length array of non-POD element type string (aka basic_string).

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Answer 1

Sorry, you need to write gcc --version to get the version.

As others state, you shouldn't use variable-length arrays, but GCC does support them as an extension in C++. My GCC 4.4.4 compiles just fine with the following code:

#include 
#include 
using namespace std;

int main() {
  int n;
  cin >> n;
  string s[n];
  return 0;
}

Does that code compile for you? If it does, then you need to give us the smallest piece of code that fails.

The best solution, though, is to use vector.