wstring commented out in egcs-1.1.2 C++ library

[Michael VanLoon]

From: llewelly@198.dsl.xmission.com
[ mailto:llewelly@198.dsl.xmission.com ]
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 1:15 AM

>As of about jan 24 or so, libstdc++-v3 supported this much of
>  wstring:
>
>#include<string>
>  using std::wstring;
>  using std::string;
>
>#include<sstream>
>  using std::wostringstream;
>
>int main()
>  {
>    wostringstream wo;
>    wo << "Hello!\n";
>    wstring hello(wo.str());
>  }
>
>(I used a wostringstream because I couldn't think of anyother way to put
>  text in wstring; it doesn't have a constructor that takes a char const* 
>  or one that takes a string. (If I read 21.3.1 correctly, such
>  constructors would be an extension.))

Try:

wstring hello(L"Hello!\n");