Ok I copied exactly out of my book but I keep getting compiler errors.This is what I got.

#include <iostream>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{

string mystring;
mystring = "hello there" endl;
cout << mystring << endl;
system("PAUSE");   
return 0;
}

It keeps saying mystring = "hello there" endl; is wrong. But its exactly out of the book. Any help would be aprecaited.

[quote author=Mitosis link=board=30;threadid=4657;start=0#msg38969 date=1073648668]
mystring = "hello there" endl;
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Probably a misprint. Delete endl on this line.

Thanks Mejal. It worked. Weird though, in my book C++ for dummies it always tells me to have endl at the end just before the ;. Ohwell thanks for your help.

To put more than one parameter on a cout line, they have to be seperated by <<'s. So on that line, put << between "hello there" and end.

[quote author=Mitosis link=board=30;threadid=4657;start=0#msg38972 date=1073652198]
Thanks Mejal. It worked. Weird though, in my book C++ for dummies it always tells me to have endl at the end just before the ;. Ohwell thanks for your help.
[/quote]
endl is only used in conjunction with cout, cerr, or other ostream objects.

Actually, Skywing's right, I didn't really need that code. You only want to have endl on lines with cout and similar operators, not in string or anything like that.