String static members

Question

I’m trying to create a static member in a class so you don’t have to instantiate the class to get the value of the class.

In the examples I found on the internet makes references to members int.

In my case I want the static member to be a string.

If I do this:

class algumacoisa
{

public:
 algumacoisa();
~algumacoisa();

string texto;
static string recebetexto;

};

texto = "alguma frase aqui...";
string algumacoisa::recebetexto = texto;

The following error message appears:

error: Qualified-id in declaration before ?=' token

It is only to illustrate that if you assign a normal string variable to a static string variable the error described occurs. The code is not complete, but you can get an idea of what it refers to.

Answer 1

Examples made anyway can have all kinds of problem. I did a right and no problem at all.

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

class AlgumaClasse {

public:
    static string recebetexto;
};

string AlgumaClasse::recebetexto = "alguma frase aqui...";

int main() {
    cout << AlgumaClasse::recebetexto;
}

Behold working in the ideone. And in the repl it.. Also put on the Github for future reference.