Static const string won't get initialized

Question

I have some static const strings as private members of my C++ class. I am aware of the declaration in .h and definition (and initialization) in .cpp practice. In the class c

Answer 1

Are you defining it as such?

class X
{
public:
      static string i;
};
string X::i = "blah"; // definition outside class declaration

See: Static data members (C++ only)