Linked List problems

[Beowolf]

Hey, I'm starting to program a linked list application, so I am playing around with creating Nodes to familiarize myself with them. I created a very simple program how I could practice creating a new node and pointing the previous node pointer to the new node, but it won't compile. Here is my code:

myLL.h

#ifndef HEADER_H
#define HEADER_H
#include <string>

struct Node
{
    std::string nvalue;
    Node *ptr;
}

#endif

main.cpp

#include <cstdlib>
#include <iostream>
#include "myLL.h"

5: int main(int argc, char *argv[])
6: {
7:    Node myNode;
8:    myNode.nvalue = "Hello";
9:
10:    system("PAUSE");
11:    return 0;
}

Error:

6 main.cpp new types may not be defined in a return type 
6 main.cpp extraneous `int' ignored 
6 main.cpp `main' must return `int' 
6 main.cpp return type for `main' changed to `int' 
Makefile.win [Build Error]  [main.o] Error 1

I don't see where the compiler is getting the "extraneous int" and why it does not think that main.cpp is not returning an int.

What I am trying to do: each Node structure has a string nvalue and a pointer to a node ptr. The user will be able to input as many strings as he/she wants, and for each new string the program will create a new node, assign nvalue to the string that was just inputted, and update the previous node ptr to point to the new node. Of course, I have not implemented all of this yet.

[hk_mp5kpdw]

#ifndef HEADER_H
#define HEADER_H
#include <string>

struct Node
{
    std::string nvalue;
    Node *ptr;
};

#endif

Missing semicolon. Sometimes an error elsewhere hundreds of lines before the printed error message will actually be the real cause of the problem.

[edit]I just realized that this is C++ code. This is the C Board, not the C++ Board. This post needs to be moved.[/edit]

[foxman]

First of all what you are writing isn't C at all... next time, please post in the right section (!).

And yeah.. there's a semicolon missing.. and note that in C if you define a struct that way

struct myStruct
{
   int i;
};

you must declare a variable this way

   ...
   struct myStruct ss;
   ...

[Beowolf]

Ops, sorry about the wrong forum.

[Salem]

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