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Chanヨネ
Chanヨネ

Reputation: 829

<< no operator found and a unrecognized escape sequence

I still very new to c++ so I probably did something weird. I'm writing a program that prints xmas trees to the screen. I've been able to do just using a string now I want to store parts of it in a variable and call each part as i need it. I keep on getting a c2679 error and a c4129 warning.

Okay now my questions:

Do I have to worry about the warnings since they do not need to be escaped?

How do I fix the c2679 error?

#include <iostream><string>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
    cout << "This is tree number "<< 1 <<endl;
    cout << "\t\t\t\t   *\n\t\t\t\t  ***\n\t\t\t\t *****\n\t\t\t\t\*******\n\t\t\t\t  ***\n\t\t\t\t  ***\n";


    string aa,a,b,c,d;
    aa = "This is tree # ";
    a = "\t\t\t\t   *";
    b = "\n\t\t\t\t  ***";
    c = "\n\t\t\t\t *****";
    d = "\n\t\t\t\t\*******";

    cout << aa;
    system("Pause");

    return 0;
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 68

Answers (1)

user93353
user93353

Reputation: 14049

Don't have a \ before the *.
Remove the \

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
    cout << "This is tree number "<< 1 <<endl;
    cout << "\t\t\t\t   *\n\t\t\t\t  ***\n\t\t\t\t *****\n\t\t\t\t*******\n\t\t\t\t  ***\n\t\t\t\t  ***\n";


    string aa,a,b,c,d;
    aa = "This is tree # ";
    a = "\t\t\t\t   *";
    b = "\n\t\t\t\t  ***";
    c = "\n\t\t\t\t *****";
    d = "\n\t\t\t\t*******";

    cout << aa;
    system("Pause");

    return 0;
}

\ denotes the start of an escape sequence. The characters you have after a \ are t, n, \ etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_sequences_in_C#Table_of_escape_sequences

Also change 

#include <iostream><string>

to

#include <iostream>
#include <string>

Upvotes: 1

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