Question

I have been searching around for a solution to this for a while. I’m trying to use the “>>” and “<<” operators as shown below but keep getting the error “No operator ‘>>’ matches these operands”. Here are the code snippets:

#include "stdafx.h"
#include <iostream>
#include <cmath>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>

...


int blah;
std::string level;

level >> blah;
thisDot.setX(blah);

level >> blah;
thisDot.setY(blah);

Several of the posts I have found on this topic have had the solution of simply including #include <string>, but as you can see I have included that and am still getting the error. I have also tried #include string.h but that doesn’t help either. Any ideas as to why this would still be happening?…it may be worth noting that I’m using the SDL library.

Answer 1

You misread the example. The example is reading from a file, not a string.

 std::string level;
 // ...
 load >> offset;

Notice that it is load that appears on the left of the >>, not level.