Reading Course information

[maloy]

im trying to read in course information where the first number is an employeeID the second is the course department, the third is the course number and the fourth is the number of students in course. I am checking the employeeID from the courses with that of the empID i read in earlier witht he professors but im not sure how to store it because im assigning the professor that class if the first number read in matches that employees ID number. But all course info must be private data in class Course but be able to access it from class Instructor. If you can help it would be appreciated.

void readCourses(ifstream &I, Course R,Instructor *S[])
{
  string courseDepartment;
  int numStudents;
  string courseNumber;
  string employeeID;

  while(!I.eof())
   {
    I >> employeeID >> courseDepartment >> courseNumber >> numStudents;

    if(I.eof())
     break;
	for(int instructorIndex = LOOP_BASE; instructorIndex < MAX_INSTRUCTORS; instructorIndex++)
	{
		int index=0;
		if(S[instructorIndex]->getEmployeeID() == employeeID)
		{
			S[instructorIndex]->TC[index]=employeeID; 
			S[instructorIndex]->TC[index]->courseDepartment=courseDepartment;
                           //Help inside of this statement
			
		}
	}
			
  }
}

private:
	string firstName;
	string lastName;
	string middleInitial;
	string employeeID;  
	Course *TC[4];

}; // end class Instuctor

lass Course {

public:
	Course();	//constructor
	~Course();


private:

	string courseDepartment;
	string courseName;
	string numStudents;
	
};

[Sebastiani]

You can't. "private" means "class access only". "protected" means "class and subclass access only". However, you may be able to make instructor a "friend" of the privatized class, but it may be just with "protected" variables. Not sure there. Otherwise, use access functions:

class Foo {
private:

int data;

public:

int get_data() {
return data;
}
};

[maloy]

the question is how can i store the data, I tried to make class Course a friend of class Instructor but that did not seem to work.

when i get to the code that says:
if(S[instructorIndex]->getEmployeeID() == employeeID)
that works fine because it goes inside the if statement which tells me that the employee id for the first instructor matches that of the one just read in which means i should assign that class to that instructor but thats when my problem occurs because when i try to go in and assign that course number and course dept and num of students it wont let me.

void readCourses(ifstream &I, Course R,Instructor *S[])
{
  string courseDepartment;
  int numStudents;
  string courseNumber;
  string employeeID;

  while(!I.eof())
   {
    I >> employeeID >> courseDepartment >> courseNumber >> numStudents;

    if(I.eof())
     break;
	for(int instructorIndex = LOOP_BASE; instructorIndex < MAX_INSTRUCTORS; instructorIndex++)
	{
		int index=0;
		if(S[instructorIndex]->getEmployeeID() == employeeID)
		{
			
			
			
		}
	}
			
  }
}

[maloy]

ok this the input file i have

Ray L. Jones 3942 6 4 1974 3 2 2001
Alice K. Brown 8300 4 8 1969 2 1 1999
Gill R. Alante 4301 8 2 1972 6 5 2000

8300 CSE 1325 92
3942 MATH 2325 18
3942 MATH 2326 25
4301 HIST 1311 26
8300 CSE 1320 24
4301 HIST 1312 25

How can i read in the data for the instuctors and the classes and then match the classes with the instructor that is supposed to teach them?

This is what i have:

void readData(ifstream &I, Instructor *S[])
 {
  string firstName;
  string lastName;
  string middleInitial;
  string employeeID;
  string bmn;
  string bdy;
  string byr;
  string hmn;
  string hdy;
  string hyr;

  
  

  for(int index = 0; index < 3; index++)
   {
	  
    I>>firstName>>middleInitial>>lastName>>employeeID>>bmn>>bdy>>byr>>hmn>>hdy>>hyr;
	
     S[index] = new Instructor(firstName, lastName, middleInitial, employeeID);

   }
 }
/***********************************************************************/
void readCourse(ifstream &I, Instructor *S[], Course *C[] )
{

	string courseDepartment;
	string numStudents;
	string courseNumber;
	string employeeID;

  while(!I.eof())
   {
    I >> employeeID >> courseDepartment >> courseNumber >> numStudents;

    if(I.eof())
     break;

    for(int instructorIndex = LOOP_BASE;
            instructorIndex < MAX_INSTRUCTORS;
            instructorIndex++)
     {
      if(S[instructorIndex]->getEmployeeID() == employeeID)
       {
        for(int courseIndex = LOOP_BASE;
                courseIndex < MAX_COURSES;
                courseIndex++)
         {
			C[courseIndex]= new Course(courseDepartment,
				courseNumber, numStudents);
		}
	  }
	}
  }
}

[elad]

class courses;//let the compiler know this class will be coming later

class Instructor
{
  public:
    string firstName;
    string lastName;
    string middleInitial;
    string employeeID;
    courses load[2];//each instructor has up to 2 courses
    int numCourses;//initialize to 0 in the constructor;
    //etc.
};

class courses
{
  public:
    string teacherID;
    string numStuds;
    string courseNum;
    string courseDept;
    //etc.
};

void readData(ifstream &I, Instructor * S[])
 {
  string bmn;
  string bdy;
  string byr;
  string hmn;
  string hdy;
  string hyr;

  for(int index = 0; index < 3; index++)
   {
	  
    I>>firstName>>middleInitial>>lastName>>employeeID>>bmn>>bdy>>byr>>hmn>>hdy>>hyr;
	
     S[index] = new Instructor(firstName, lastName, middleInitial, employeeID);

   }
 }
/ **************************************************
*********************/
void readCourse(ifstream &I, Instructor *S[])
{

	string courseDepartment;
	string numStudents;
	string courseNumber;
	string employeeID;

  while(!I.eof())
   {
    I >> employeeID >> courseDepartment >> courseNumber >> numStudents;

    if(I.eof())
     break;

    for(int instructorIndex = LOOP_BASE;
            instructorIndex < MAX_INSTRUCTORS;
            instructorIndex++)
     {
      if(S[instructorIndex]->getEmployeeID() == employeeID)
       {
          C = new Course(courseDepartment,
	courseNumber, numStudents);
          S[instructorIndex]->load[numCourses++] = *C;
       }
     }
   }
  }

no real need to pass array of courses(like a catalog) to readCourse() if the array of courses for each instructor is a member of the Instructor class. Since you are reading course information from a file in readCourse(), I presume you don't have a courses array already read in someplace else. If you want to construct a course catalog and then pass that to readCourse(), of course you may, but you don't need to. You should give some thought to writing your own assignment operator for the courses class, although, depending on the members in the courses class, the default assignment operator supplied by the compiler may be adequate.