Question

I have these two header files and one produces an error if I don’t put std:: in front of all string declarations and the other doesn’t. I was just wondering what the difference between the two was.

The following will produce an error if the std:: is not in front of the string declarations:

#include <string>
#include <vector>

#pragma once

#ifndef DATABASE_H
#define DATABASE_H

struct Item
{
    public:
        std::string object;

        int numOfColors;
        std::string colors;

        int sizeSmall;
        int sizeLarge;
};

class database
{
private:
    void fillDatabase(std::vector<Item>);
public:
    void getDatabase(std::vector<Item>);
};

#endif

The following code will not produce an error:

#include <string>

#pragma once

#ifndef GUISTRUCT_H
#define GUISTRUCT_H

struct guiValues
{
    public:
        string shape;
        string color;
        int width;
        double squareProbability;
        double rectangleProbability;
        double circleProbability;

        string firstMostLikelyObject;
        double FMLOprobability;
        string secondMostLikelyObject;
        double SMLOprobability;
        string thirdMostLikelyObject;
        double TMLOprobability;

};

#endif

Answer 1

The second file is included after some other that defines

using namespace std;