Thread: need help with an inventory program

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    need help with an inventory program

    I have been trying for 5 weeks now to write a simple inventory program for a "book store". The program is suppose to update the inBooks file each time a book is sold or delivered into the inventory system. It is suppose to display a menu, list all inventory items, list a single book, sell one book, add inventory, and sort books in alphabetic order by book title. I am having problems in the last 3 functions with the error "local function definitions are illegal. I am taking the errors in the bookDelivery, dailySalesReport, and updateFile functions. In addition to the above errors I am also taking an unexpected end of file found after the last curly brace in the updateFile function. I would appreciate any and all help as this assignment is due Thursday, 9/13. A big thank you to any and all that can help me with the errors.

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    Post your code. It's probably a simple syntax error. You are missing a closing brace somewhere, or have misplaced a closing pair of them.

    int foo() {
    void bar(); //bar local to foo... illegal
    return 0;
    }
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    You had a couple of ifs that were like this

    if (something == 'N'); // That semicolon was killing you

    as well as a few other misplaced braces.

    For my compiler, I needed stdio for getchar. It compiles now though.
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    thank you

    Thank you, silent strike. now maybe I can get to the sort and the rest of the program.

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