Beginner question here

[Danker310]

im sure this is a noob question here, so sorry about that. and i have searched the web and tried figuring out this out but i cant seem to find anything although im sure that is just a simple mistake or something.

But anyways im trying to make my IDE run the statment below.

int x;
x = 5;
cout << x;

but my results are always:

error: "x" does not name a type
error: 'cout' does not name a type

is there something i need to add? is it just invalid? or what can i do to fix this. thanx

[Zhuge]

The snippet looks fine. Could you post the entire code inside [code] tags?

[Danker310]

sure,

int main()

int x;
x = 5;
cout << x;

[Danker310]

Im also using code blocks, and this is under "Console Application" projects, if that helps

[Zhuge]

That doesn't look like the whole code, but supposing it is you are missing braces around the contents of main() and you need to #include <iostream>