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admin@rzaix13.uni-hamburg.de (Bernd Eggink) wrote:
>Gabriel Sanchez Gutierrez (gsg@sema.es) wrote:
>>  #include <iostream.h>
>>  #include <map.h>
>
>>  typedef char* string;
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Very bad.

>You are comparing pointers instead of strings. Add
>
>  struct less<string>
>  {
>	bool operator()(string a, string b) { return strcmp(a, b) < 0; }
>  };
>
>and it will work.

Typedef'ing "char*" to "string" is dangerous and misleading, since "string" 
already exists in the language.  In fact, removing the typedef should solve 
the original problem and make the program work properly!


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