iostream alternative in ubuntu

[ltoso]

Hi,
i am learning c++ programming and i can do the basic on windows on turbo c++, i am running ubuntu on my home system and i want to learn to use c++ on ubuntu, i have downloaded the buil-essential pacakge so that i can compile c++ programs, but it gives the error that there is no
iostream.h header file
and hence undeclared cout and cin which are there present in windows

please suggest
Regards
ltoso

[snova]

Hi,
i am learning c++ programming and i can do the basic on windows on turbo c++, i am running ubuntu on my home system and i want to learn to use c++ on ubuntu, i have downloaded the buil-essential pacakge so that i can compile c++ programs, but it gives the error that there is no
iostream.h header file
and hence undeclared cout and cin which are there present in windows

please suggest
Regards
ltoso

Installing build-essential will pull in the C++ standard library, so if it's not there, you did something else. What exactly did you do?

Also, don't use iostream.h; use iostream.

[johnl]

iostream.h is an out-dated, legacy header file. As snova pointed out, you should be using <iostream>. In fact, all the C++ standard library header files are extension-less.

You will also need to write:



std::cout << ... << std::endl


or



using namespace std;

cout << ... << endl;


or



using std::cout;
using std::endl;

cout << ... << endl;