I have a situation with compiler. When i run the code to strip a string of special characters it runs in one compiler but doesn't in another?

Question

Here is the code that produces the error in g++ 4.6.3

for (int i = 0; i < strlen(chars); i++)
 {
  a.erase (remove(a.begin(), a.end(), chars[i]), a.end());
 }

The error i get is

error: cannot convert 'std::basic_string<char>::iterator {aka __gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator<char*, std::basic_string<char> >}' to 'const char*' for argument '1' to 'int remove(const char*)'

The code runs perfectly well in code blocks 12.11.

Answer 1

You need

#include <algorithm>

And use std::remove instead of remove .

Otherwise it tries to use the remove function which is useful to remove files and it accepts const char* as parameter.