I edited this code from a book but can't get it to work no that i've changed it. <code> #include <iostream> using namespace std; int main() { int strsiz; cout << "Enter String Size: "; cin >> strsiz; char string[strsiz]; cout<<"Please enter a long string: "; cin.getline (string,strsiz, '\n' ); cout<<"Your long string was: "<< string<<endl; cin.get(); } </code> Any thoughts anyone? Thanx djas

char string[strsiz]; When declaring an array, you cannot use a variable. The value to indicate the size of the array must be available at compile time. It appears that you want to allocate the string array during runtime. To do that, you must allocate the memory for the string array during runtime. Something like this: cin >> strsiz; char *string; string = new char[strsiz]; Be sure to come back and let us know if our suggestions helped!