Why can't I declare a string in my program: “string is undeclared identifier”

Question

I can\'t declare a string in my program:

string MessageBoxText = CharNameTextBox->Text;

it just doesn\'t work. It says string is u

Answer 1

To use the standard string class in C++ you need to #include . Once you've added the #include directive string will be defined in the std namespace and you can refer to it as std::string.

E.g.

#include 
#include 

int main()
{
    std::string hw( "Hello, world!\n" );
    std::cout << hw;
    return 0;
}