Thread: Employee Class Program..Primary expression error help

So I am learning about the basics of C++ programming and I'm currently learning about classes and separate compilation in C++. However, i can't figure out why I got this error and its driving me crazy. The error that would pop up would be "38 driver.cpp expected primary-expression before '<<' token" or "39 driver.cpp expected primary-expression before '.' token". I don't quite understand what it means even after googling it.

Heres my main

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
#include "employee.h"


int main(){  
Employee Emp;    
float w, r;
string n, l, t;
int id;


cout.setf(ios::fixed);
cout.setf(ios::showpoint);
cout.precision(2);


cout << "Please enter your first and last name into the program respectively.\n";
cin >> n >> l;
cout << "Please enter your ID number.\n";
cin >> id;
cout << "Please enter 'manager' if your title is manager, if not then just enter 'employee'. \n";
cin >>  t;
cout << "How many hours have you worked?\n";
cin >>  w;
r = 10.00;


Emp.setSalary(w, r);


cout << "Employee's name:" << Employee.getFirstName(n) << " " << Employee.getLastName(l) << endl; 
cout << "Employee ID Number:" << Employee.getID(id) << endl; 
cout << "Title in company: " << Employee.getTitle(t) << << endl;
cout << "Your salary for the week is: " << Employee.getSalary() << endl;


system ("PAUSE");
return 0;
}

my implementation file:

Code:

#include<iostream>
#include<string>
using namespace std;
#include "employee.h"
// Implementaion of Employee Class
//
void Employee::setEmp(string n, string l, string t, int id, float s){
    f_name = n;
    l_name = l;
    title = t;
   this->id = id;
    salary = s;
}
void Employee::setSalary(float h_rate, float h_work){
     h_rate = r;
     h_work = w;
     
   if (title == "employee"){
      if (h_work > 0 && h_work < 40)
       (h_work * h_rate) = salary;
      else if (h_work > 40) { 
       overtime = h_work - 40;
       h_work = h_work - overtime;
       salary = (h_rate * h_work) + ((1.5 * h_rate) * overtime);}
       } 
   else if (title == "manager")
      if (h_work > 0 && h_work <= 40){
       (h_work * (h_rate * 2)) = salary;}
      else if (h_work > 40) { 
       overtime = h_work - 40;
       h_work = h_work - overtime;
       salary = ((2 * h_rate) * h_work) + (2.5 * h_rate) * overtime);}
       }                            
}
string Employee::getFirstName() {
    return f_name;
}
string Employee::getLastName() {
    return l_name;
}
string Employee::getTitle() {
    return title;
}
int Employee::getID(){
   return id;
}
float Employee::getSalary(){
  return salary;
}

and my header file

Code:

#ifndef EMPLOYEE_H
#define EMPLOYEE_H
#include<iostream>
#include<string>
using namespace std;
/*****************************************************************
 * Version 2.0
 ******************************************************************/
const int  W_H=40;
class Employee {


public:
// the first string is for setting an emplloyye's  first name
// the sec........
// .....
 void setEmp(string fname, string lname, string title, int id, float s);
//
// thsi methid is returning an employee's first name 
 string getFirstName(); // retrieves first name of employee
 string getLastName(); // retrieves last name os employee
 void setSalary(float h_rate, float h_work);  // sets salary of employee
 string getTitle(); // retrieves title of an employee
 int getID();  // retrieves ID of an employee
 float getSalary(); // retrieves the Salary of an employee
private:
 string f_name;
 string l_name;
 int id;
 string title;
 float s;
 float h_rate;
 float h_work;
 float overtime;
};//
//
//End of the class
//
#endif

The single letter variables are just to just placeholders before i edit it to look nicer, however i took your advice and now when i set all the functions to Emp."..." i received a new error saying that
"no matching function for call to `Employee::getFirstName(std::string&)'" and "19 candidates are: std::string Employee::getFirstName() ". i dont quite understand what that means. Is it saying I am not calling the function correctly in some way?

Ok so i finally was able to sort throughout all the bugs and was able to finally compile XD. Now however i want to calculate the the employees salary based on my "void Employee::setSalary (float H_rate, float h_work)" function. How would i incorporate that into the "void Employee::setEmp (s, l,...)" function? Do i change setSalary from a void function and put it in the setEMP function in place of float s?