Stray '\342' in C++ program

Question

I\'m getting these errors in my program after pasting in some code:

showdata.cpp:66: error: stray ‘\\342’ in program         


        

Answer 1

The lines

 size_t startpos = str.find_first_not_of(” \t”); 
 size_t endpos = str.find_last_not_of(” \t”); 

have some "special" kind of double quotes, try the following:

 size_t startpos = str.find_first_not_of(" \t"); 
 size_t endpos = str.find_last_not_of(" \t");