How to interpret "error C2018: unknown character '0x40'? [closed]

Question

While compiling some code I receive the following:

"error C2018: unknown character '0x40'"

I wonder how to resolve such issue?

Answer 1

Here is where I would begin:

• Have you included any non-standard include files? If so, check those for errors.

• Have you missed a semi-colon somewhere?

• Have you accidently used object > data instead of object -> data anywhere in your code?

• Have you copied the code from one machine (OS) to another, causing encoding issues?

Answer 2

Character 0x40 is '@' in ascii, iso-8859-1, utf-8 and many other encodings. It's also not part of the basic character set in C so should not appear in your source except possibly in a character or string literal or a comment. How are you using it and what are you trying to do?

Answer 3

I've just got this error, but complaining about character '0x6', compiling a CPP file with Visual Studio 2010. And I got rid of it rewriting the line that was causing the error (writing the very same line above the old one, and deleting the old one).