# Using a string in unreal

**URL:** <https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/using-a-string-in-unreal/398316>\
**Category:** Editor Scripting\
**Tags:** variables, Variable, parameter, string, unreal-engine, CPP, question\
**Created:** [August 5, 2017, 9:38pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/using-a-string-in-unreal/398316 "2017-08-05T21:38:06Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 5, 2017, 9:38pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/using-a-string-in-unreal/398316/1 "2017-08-05T21:38:06Z")

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I am trying to add something so that the player can name themselves and a few other things whatever they like. However, Visual Studio is not recognizing the type string, even after I have added #include . I also cannot use void in this situation because I am adding it as a parameter.

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**Post date:** [August 5, 2017, 9:49pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/using-a-string-in-unreal/398316/2 "2017-08-05T21:49:47Z")

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It can be cause by the Intellisense not updating/parsing the current include files, you can try to write a simple code like this `string mystring = "Hello!";` and it should compile fine!.

Anyway unreal has also the [FString](https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/API/Runtime/Core/Containers/FString/index.html) class, take a look also [here](https://wiki.unrealengine.com/String_Conversions:_FString_to_FName,_FString_to_Int32,_Float_to_FString) for type conversion.