What I'm I doing wrong?

[Lord Winter]

I've been trying to learn C++ and I've started with the clasic hello world program just as a test. But every time I try to run it the dos type window appears just for a fraction of a second. My code:

// hello world program

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main ()
{
	cout << "Hello World!";
	return 0; }

Does anyone see anything obvious?

[Reenk Roink]

Your code looks OK, I really don't see the problem. Try putting the end curly on the next line like this:

// hello world program

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main ()
{
	cout << "Hello World!";
	return 0; 
}

If that doesn't work, it may not be the code's fault but something else.

Good luck learning by the way, I'm learning it too (and having a tough time in class).

[Lord Winter]

That didn't work.
Good luck to you to, I've been trying off and on for about a year and now I'm trying to make a solid attempt. What compiler do you use?

[Caius]

Why you dont start from crash again?

[Reenk Roink]

That didn't work.
Good luck to you to, I've been trying off and on for about a year and now I'm trying to make a solid attempt. What compiler do you use?

I use the compiler that comes with Visual Studio 2005 (school software) but I don't know specifically.

Also, one last thing. Caius Flaminius is right, just try again, and try adding an "endl;" after your cout like:

cout << "Hello World!" << endl;

[Lord Winter]

found the problem, the program wasn't stoping at the end so it just closed. I fixed it by adding: system (pause) to the end. Thanks for your help.