Declaring a string array in class header file - compiler thinks string is variable name?

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Published on 2010-04-22T12:07:14Z Indexed on 2010/04/22 12:13 UTC
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Hey everybody, I need a bit of a hand with declaring a string array in my class header file in C++.

atm it looks like this:

//Maze.h
#include <string>

class Maze

{
    GLfloat mazeSize, mazeX, mazeY, mazeZ;
    string* mazeLayout;

public:
    Maze ( );
    void render();
};

and the constructor looks like this:

//Maze.cpp
#include <GL/gl.h>
#include "Maze.h"
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>

Maze::Maze( )
{
    cin >> mazeSize;
    mazeLayout = new string[mazeSize];

    mazeX = 2/mazeSize;
    mazeY = 0.25;
    mazeZ = 2/mazeSize;
}

I'm getting a compiler error that says:

In file included from model-view.cpp:11:
Maze.h:14: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of ‘string’ with no type
Maze.h:14: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘*’ token

and the only sense that makes to me is that for some reason it thinks I want string as a variable name not as a type declaration.

If anybody could help me out that would be fantastic, been looking this up for a while and its giving me the shits lol.

Cheers guys

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