the " character

[vintage88]

everytime i try to do the hello world text i can't get the symbol (") to come up. i have an english (uk) keyboard runnin 64bit windows 7 home premium how can i get round this? i have tried to use the @ button and have looked at english us keyboards and tried it that way but no joy

[Copy]

What do you mean you cant get it to come up? Theres a key that does ' but when you press shift + ' = "

[vintage88]

i put in cout << "hello world!" and in screen it comes out as cout << hello world ! the program then comes back with 6 errors

[chikaibeneme]

its cout<<"Hello world"<<endl;

you have to use ; to close the lin :D

[chikaibeneme]

<<endl is optional but you need ";"

[Copy]

Something to learn is you really need to use semi colons;


Try this

cout << "Hello World!";

[vintage88]

thats what
im trying to get " " but when i type it on my keyboard nothing happens " doesn't come up on screen

[chikaibeneme]

Oh you are trying to get ";" but its not appearing on the screen correct?

[Copy]

In your comment you said your using

cout<<"Hello World!"
You need
cout<<"Hello World!";

This is the most common, Hello World. Make sure yours looks similar

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main ()
{
  cout << "Hello World!";
  return 0;
}

If your tutorial is different. I suggest www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial

[cire]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#United_Kingdom

Suggests that shift+2 would be the way to go.

You may also want to check

Control Panel -> Clock, Language, Region -> Region and Language -> Change keyboards or other input methods

From there you can click on Change Keyboards from the Keyboards and Languages tab to see what layout Windows is assuming.

[Adiminium]

Just press the key to get the Colon ":" without pressing shift to get a Semi-Colon ";"