Text Formatting ⇒ xstring | Two Document Classes

[eleanor]

Hi.

I'm trying to compile the next usecase:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xstring}

\begin{document}
  Test.
\end{document}

I'm compiling with the "pdflatex xstring.tex" (I named my document xstring).

Then I'm getting the following error:

$ pdflatex xstring.tex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (Web2C 2009)
restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./xstring.tex
LaTeX2e <2009/09/24>
Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation, lo
aded.
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/xstring/xstring.sty (./xstring.tex

! LaTeX Error: Two \documentclass or \documentstyle commands.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type H <return> for immediate help.
...

l.1 \documentclass{
article}
?
(./xstring.aux) [1{//var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}]
(./xstring.aux) ) ) )</usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr1
0.pfb>
Output written on xstring.pdf (1 page, 11055 bytes).
Transcript written on xstring.log.

A little more info about the xstring package:

# ls -l /usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/xstring/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 144 Mar 28 2010 xstring.sty
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51634 Mar 28 2010 xstring.tex

And the version number:

\def\xstringversion {1.5d}
\def\xstringdate {2010/03/28}
\def\xstringfrenchdate {28 mars 2010}
\def\xstringenglishdate {March $28^{\mathrm{th}}$ 2010}
\edef\CurrentAtCatcode {\the\catcode`\@}
\catcode`\@=11
\newwrite\@xs@message% canal pour les messages
\newcount\integerpart\newcount\decimalpart% compteurs utilis\'es par xstring
\newif\if@xs@empty

If I uncomment the \usepackage{xstring} line then I don't get the error anymore. Let me just mention that I'm using gentoo linux.

Does anybody have any idea why this is happening?

[localghost]

[…] I'm compiling with the "pdflatex xstring.tex" (I named my document xstring). […]

You mustn't do so. Never give a source file the name of a package you are loading. Assign another name to your document.


Thorsten

[eleanor]

Thanks for the reply. That solved my problem.