Don''t want to be too pushy just came on board, but need this badly. I''m learning C++ and trying to write this small progm I''m using strings as variables but they don''t get recognized by the #include . I''m using visual 5.0 studio 97. are there any new type header files for strings? I''m doing a basic deal here: string socSecNu; string lastName; hope this isn''t too lame thanks for the help Abydos

#include <string> //gives you a string under std namespace...std::string str;