diff --git a/string.cpp b/string.cpp
index e5a9775c..a28008b1 100644
--- a/string.cpp
+++ b/string.cpp
@@ -12,8 +12,6 @@
 #include <codecvt>
 #include <locale>
 
-using cruft::tokeniser;
-
 
 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 std::string