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I am completely new to C++ and I am now following the C++ Primer book.
I wrote a small example about strings, here is the code:
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <cctype>
using std::cin;
using std::cout;
using std::endl;
using std::string;
int main() {
string s("Hello World");
for (auto &c : s)
c = toupper(c);
cout << s << endl;
return 0;
}
I am on Linux with GCC version 4.4.6 and I tried to compile this code with:
g++ test_strings.c -std=c++0x
but got the following errors:
test_strings.c: In function 'int main()':
test_strings.c:14: error: expected initializer before ':' token
test_strings.c:19: error: expected primary-expression before 'return'
test_strings.c:19: error: expected ')' before 'return'
I copied the program from the textbook, so I though it was a misspelling but after a check and trying searching on the web and updating my gcc the error reminds. Help will be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.
Answer1:
As per the C++0x/C++11 Support in GCC page, you need to be running gcc 4.6 to get the range-for feature.
The 4.6 changes page contains:
Improved experimental support for the upcoming C++0x ISO C++ standard, including support for constexpr (thanks to Gabriel Dos Reis and Jason Merrill), nullptr (thanks to Magnus Fromreide), noexcept, unrestricted unions, <strong>range-based for loops</strong> (thanks to Rodrigo Rivas Costa), opaque enum declarations (thanks also to Rodrigo), implicitly deleted functions and implicit move constructors.
Since you're running gcc 4.4.6, it's not available to you.
