Problem which ifstream and ofstream class in VC++

[Armando]

i write one programm in vc++ but the compiler say that i use ambiguous
symbol,i don´t know why ? how can do to tell the compiler that is ok
so ? i become this error message:

error C2872: 'ifstream' : ambiguous symbol
error C2872: 'ofstream' : ambiguous symbol
error C2065: 'fileread' : undeclared identifier
error C2228: left of '.open' must have class/struct/union type
error C2228: left of '.eof' must have class/struct/union type

there is my sourcecode.
i should be very if i become some idee.
thank 4 u help

#ifndef _XML_H
#define _XML_H

#include<fstream.h>

#include<string>
using namespace std;

class XML
{
private:

ifstream fileread;
ofstream filewrite;

public:

// For reading file and inserting the key and value pairs into
XML file
static void readfile(char *infile,string key1,string
text1,string str_value,string val);

// Function for converting the function parameters into XML file
static void writeXML(char *infile,string val,char *path);

// retrieving the value
string getValue(char *infile,char *path);
};
#endif // _XML_H

[Attila Feher]

Armando wrote:

#include<fstream.h>
Drop the .h!
#include<string>
using namespace std;

--
Attila aka WW

[Martijn Lievaart]

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 06:48:59 -0800, Armando wrote:

i write one programm in vc++ but the compiler say that i use ambiguous
symbol,i don´t know why ? how can do to tell the compiler that is ok
so ? i become this error message:

*sigh* why does this question suddenly come up thrice a day.

It is because you are mixing old style (fstream.h) and new style (string)
headers. Older MSVC (dunno about the newer ones) cannot handle this well.
Use fstream instead of fstream.h.

HTH,
M4