Function Templates within Class possible ??

[quantass]

I've just discovered Function Templates and would like to implement it within my class. Is this possible?

I've tried doing something like this:
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class MyClass
{
public:
template <class T> char WriteActionFile(T &incVar)
}

template <class T> char MyClass::WriteActionFile(T &incVar)
{
cout << sizeof T << endl;
}

void main(..)
{
MyClass myObj;
long val=10;

myObj.WriteActionFile(val);
}
--

What happens is VC++6 returns back the error message:
==
error C2893: Failed to specialize function template 'char __thiscall MyClass::WriteActionFile(T &)' - With the following template arguments:
'char'
==

Ok what did i do wrong? I've tried other combos but cant seem to get function templates to work for a specific class? Does this mean function templates can only be implemented within the global namespace? Ideally i would like to have the template prototype within the class declaration and the definition within the source file, that is, I would prefer not to have to inline the function body into the class declaration.