Stupid Strings [RESOLVED]

[GamerMax5]

I've always been baffled by this as I haven't paid much attention to it but now that I am, I'm reliving the irritability (is that a word?) of my past pains.

Strings in C++...

I've seen tutorials and books that say stuff like this as for the declaration of a string:

#include <string>

string str1;

Then I've seen this as an initialization for a string:

str1("Hello");
str1 = "Hello";

Now why is it I'm seeing this as examples from tutorials but when I do this in my code, all the time, I'll get this nice little error from the compiler (and I quote):

'string' does not name a type

This is a SECTION of code where the compiler complains:

typedef class item{
private:
    ITEM_TYPE type;
    string name;  //right here!!!!!
    string desc;  //and here too!!!!
    int buyPrice;
    int sellPrice;
    BITMAP *sprite;

Could someone tell me why this is happening? Thanks in advance