Incomplete type is not allowed: stringstream

c++ types stringstream
pighead10 picture pighead10 · Apr 25, 2011 · Viewed 194.9k times · Source

Why does this line give the error Error: incomplete type is not allowed?

stringstream ss;

Answer

Prasoon Saurav picture Prasoon Saurav · Apr 25, 2011

#include <sstream> and use the fully qualified name i.e. std::stringstream ss;

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