Quick Course C++

[Raptor]

I am doing a quick course on C++ and the book told me to build a program.

However, each time I do so it generates this error:

d:\c++ weekend crash course\work\conversion.cpp(13) : error C2676: binary '>' : 'class istream_withassign' does not define this operator or a conversion to a type acceptable to the predefined operator
Error executing cl.exe.

The book is from 2000 and is called C++ Weekend Crash Course

I am using Microsoft Visual 6.0 C++ Standard Edition

What could that error possibly mean?

I have looked on the Internet, but what I found made no sense to me.

A friend of mine is doing the exact same with the same version of Visal C++ and runs into the same error...

[Raptor]

Here is the program I am told to recreate..

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//
// Program to convert temperature from Celsius degree
// units into Fahrenheit degree units:
// Fahrenheit = Celsius * (212 - 32)/100 + 32
//
#include <stdio.h>
#include <iostream.h>
int main(int nNumberofArgs, char* pszArgs[])
{
// enter the temperature in Celsius
int nCelsius;
cout << “Enter the temperature in Celsius:”;
cin > nCelsius;
// calculate conversion factor for Celsius
// to Fahrenheit
int nFactor;
nFactor = 212 - 32;
// use conversion factor to convert Celsius
// into Fahrenheit values
int nFahrenheit;
nFahrenheit = nFactor * nCelsius/100 + 32;
// output the results
cout << “Fahrenheit value is:”;
cout << nFahrenheit;
return 0;
}


Copied from a .PDF document into a forum.. The layout's a bit.... messy now.

[Raptor]

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cin > nCelsius;

Had to be

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cin >>  nCelsius;

I wonder if they ever bother to double check important things on spelling errors.. No wonder wars are started.

[Joleen]

As you've already found out.. a missing "" or ; can completely blow apart your app.  Syntax is everything and spelling is huge.  Happy learning.

[Raptor]

I am aware of that - however, this was not my fault:

cin > instead of cin >>

(The writer's Texan, and we all know what comes from Texas..)

[Joleen]

this was not my fault

A wise carpenter never blames his tools.

[shield]

A wise carpenter never blames his tools.

nice quote there Joleen

[Joleen]

nice quote

Indeed it is.  As you'll probably know, Raptor and I frequently poke fun at each other both here and on MSN.  No insult is intended except the friendly one found in any friendship.

[Raptor]

group hug