Dear Advanced C++ programers: from book (c++ cookbook), chapter 4, section 3: Storing Strings in a Sequence --------- #include <iostream> #include <vector> #include <exception> using namespace std; int main() { char carr[] = {'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e'}; cout << carr[100000] << '\n'; // Whoops, who knows what's going // to happen vector<char> v; v.push_back('a'); v.push_back('b'); v.push_back('c'); v.push_back('d'); v.push_back('e'); try { cout << v.at(10000) << '\n'; // at checks bounds and throws } catch(out_of_range& e) { // out_of_range if it's invalid cerr << e.what() << '\n'; } } ---------------------------------------------------------------------- my g++ response ----------------- eric@eric-laptop:~/cppcookbook/download$ g++ 4-7.cpp 4-7.cpp: In function ‘int main()’: 4-7.cpp:20:11: error: expected type-specifier before ‘out_of_range’ 4-7.cpp:20:23: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘&’ token 4-7.cpp:20:23: error: expected ‘{’ before ‘&’ token 4-7.cpp:20:25: error: ‘e’ was not declared in this scope 4-7.cpp:20:26: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘)’ token ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- the code can be download from http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596007614/ that mean it was tested success in some platform(vc++ in xp), so please help, thanks a lot in advance, Eric