Why am I getting string does not name a type Error?

Question

game.cpp

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <sstream>
#include "game.h"
#include "board.h"
#include "piece.h"

using namespace std;

game.h

#ifndef GAME_H
#define GAME_H
#include <string>

class Game
{
    private:
        string white;
        string black;
        string title;
    public:
        Game(istream&, ostream&);
        void display(colour, short);
};

#endif

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The error is:

game.h:8 error: 'string' does not name a type
game.h:9 error: 'string' does not name a type

Answer 1

Your using declaration is in game.cpp, not game.h where you actually declare string variables. You intended to put using namespace std; into the header, above the lines that use string, which would let those lines find the string type defined in the std namespace.

As others have pointed out, this is not good practice in headers -- everyone who includes that header will also involuntarily hit the using line and import std into their namespace; the right solution is to change those lines to use std::string instead