string char being assigned to a char - c++

Question

Just recently began to get back to programing and started doing some exercises but i keep gettin an error that should be simple to solve but cant seem to solve it...
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <stdlib.h>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
int numberInts = 3;
int strSize = 0;
char interator = 'o';
string source[3];
string strTest ("this is a test");
//source = (string*) malloc (3+1);
source[0] = "(a+(b*c))"; //abc*+
source[1] = "((a+b)*(z+x))";
source[2] = "((a+t)*((b+(a+c))^(c+d)))";
for(int i=0;i<numberInts;i++)
{
strSize = source[i].size();
for(int j = 0; j < strSize; j++)
{
iterator = strTest[0];
if(source[i][j] == '\(')
{
cout<<"\(";
}
}
cout << "\n";
}
return 0;
}
the line "iterator = strTest[0];" gives me a missing template argument error, and i cant really figure out why cant i assign to a char a position of a string that returns a char...
thanks

Answer 1

For one thing, you misspelled iterator as interator when you declared it.

Answer 2

Spelling mistake, your char variable is called interator not iterator.

Answer 3

Switch to Clang. It's error messages are much more specific. It actually catches most spelling mistakes and offers suggestions to what it thinks you might have meant. However it probably wouldn't have caught this as a spelling error because of the iterator template.
You would have seen the following as an error:
testclang.cpp:8:5: error: cannot refer to class template 'iterator'
without a template argument list
iterator = 5;
^
In file included from testclang.cpp:1:
In file included from /usr/include/c++/4.4/iostream:39:
In file included from /usr/include/c++/4.4/ostream:39:
In file included from /usr/include/c++/4.4/ios:40:
In file included from /usr/include/c++/4.4/bits/char_traits.h:40:
In file included from /usr/include/c++/4.4/bits/stl_algobase.h:67:
/usr/include/c++/4.4/bits/stl_iterator_base_types.h:103:12: note:
template is declared here
struct iterator
However without the `using namespace std', this (testclang.cpp):
int main()
{
int interator = 3;
iterator = 5;
}
When compiled with clang:
clang testclang.cpp
produces:
testclang.cpp:4:5: error: use of undeclared identifier 'iterator'; did
you mean 'interator'?
iterator = 5;
^~~~~~~~
interator