error: invalid user defined conversion from char to const key_type&

Question

I am trying to assign

int

type value to each letter in latin alphabet using

std::map

. When I want to create new int and give it a value equal to

int

mapped to word, i get an error:

F:\Programming\korki\BRUDNOPIS\main.cpp|14|error: invalid user-defined conversion from 'char' to 'const key_type& {aka const std::basic_string&}' [-fpermissive]|

Example:

#include <iostream>

#include <string>

#include <cstdlib>

#include <map>



using namespace std;



int main()

{

    std::map <std::string,int> map;

    map["A"] = 1;

    int x;

    std:: string word = "AAAAAA";

    x = map[word[3]];



    cout << x;



    return 0;

}

What am I doing wrong?

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Answer 1

I am trying to assign int type value to each letter in latin alphabet using std::map.

So you have to use char (instead of std::string) as key of the map; something like

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <map>

int main()
{
    std::map<char, int>  map;
    map['A'] = 1;
    int x;
    std:: string word = "AAAAAA";
    x = map[word[3]];

    std::cout << x << std::endl;

    return 0;
}

As observed by others, now you're trying to use a char as a key for a std::map where the key is a std::string. And there isn't an automatic conversion from char to std::string.

Little Off Topic suggestion: avoid to give a variable the same name of a type, like your std::map that you've named map. It's legit but confusion prone.

error: invalid user defined conversion from char to const key_type&

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