markscottwright wrote:
> I'm using visual studio 8, and the following code is failing. For the
> life of me, I can't see what's wrong...
>
> void myTest(std::string const& in)
> {
> using namespace std;
> string::const_iterator lastNonWhitespace = find_if(in.rbegin(),

Did you mean to declare it 'string::const_reverse_iterator'? If
not, you might want to look into the 'base' member, as in

string::const_iterator lastNonWhitspace = find_if(...) . base();

> in.rend(), not1(ptr_fun(isspace)));
> }
>
> The error is:
> strutils.cpp|226 error 2440| 'initializing' : cannot convert from
> 'std::reverse_iterator<_RanIt>' to
> 'std::_String_const_iterator<_Elem,_Traits,_Alloc>'
>>> with
>>> [
>>>
> _RanIt=std::_String_const_iterator<char,std::char_traits<char >,std::allocator<char>>
>>> ]
>>> and
>>> [
>>> _Elem=char,
>>> _Traits=std::char_traits<char>,
>>> _Alloc=std::allocator<char>
>>> ]
>>> No constructor could take the source type, or constructor
> overload resolution was ambiguous

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