Hi Sylvian,
That's the black magic part of it :).
The recent ROOT version(s) are using the standard ANSISTREAM
facilities and for the various platforms this is all taken care
of in the ROOT specific Riostream.h (so that's why the "R" is there).
Cheers,
Nick.
Sylvian Kahane wrote:
>
> Well thanks.
>
> It seems simple and it is working, but why the weird sintax,
> why the "R" and where are the brackests <....> ?
>
> Sylvian Kahane email: skahane@bgumail.bgu.ac.il
> Physics Dept. fax: 972-8656-7878
> Nuclear Research Center - Negev
> P.O.Box 9001, Beer-Sheva, Israel
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nick van Eijndhoven" <Nick@phys.uu.nl>
> To: "Sylvian Kahane" <skahane@bgumail.bgu.ac.il>
> Cc: <roottalk@pcroot.cern.ch>
> Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 3:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [ROOT] cout problems
>
> > Hi Sylvian,
> > It means you need to include the header file(s) for the iostream
> functions.
> > The way I do this is by just adding
> >
> > #include "Riostream.h"
> >
> > in my rootlogon.C file in my home directory.
> > This means that in any ROOT session you have the stuff available.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Nick.
> >
> > --
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> >
> > > Sylvian Kahane wrote:
> > >
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > I run the last version of root for windows (well nor evrybody belongs to
> the church of
> > > Linux, I pay my taxes to Bill Gates) - the wingdk version. I tried the
> trivial line
> > >
> > > cout << "Hello" << endl;
> > >
> > > (I am in the stage when I am trying to educate myself) and I got the
> following error
> > >
> > > Error: Symbol cout is not defined in current scope FILE:(tmpfile)
> LINE:1
> > > Error: << Illegal operator for pointer 3 FILE:(tmpfile) LINE:1
> > > Error: Symbol endl is not defined in current scope FILE:(tmpfile)
> LINE:1
> > >
> > > In the Linux version is working OK.
> > >
> > > It is not the single example where cout is bringing an error; it hapens
> with the script on the
> > > page 16 of the user manual (Conventions used in this book); the one on
> page 28 (the for loop);
> > > page 35. Surprisingly the script on page 105 is working (the one with
> include <iostream.h>)
> > > but the one on page 110 is not, in spite of the include <iostream.h>.
> > >
> > >
> > > Sylvian Kahane email: skahane@bgumail.bgu.ac.il
> > > Physics Dept. fax: 972-8656-7878
> > > Nuclear Research Center - Negev
> > > P.O.Box 9001, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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