structure names

hi im writing a little program for myself so i can get used c++.
i made a structure to hold the data then i tried to make a function that would creat a new struct for each new card (void direct)
as you can imagine the way i tried isnt working.
any sugestions?

here are some line i made..
test is the struct itself
create() gathers the name and stuff...
direct() puts the info in the structure.

struct test // structure of the cards
{
char fname[15];
char lname[15];
int age[2];
int tel[12];
int bdate[8];
};

void create() // gather info and put them into cards
{

cout <<endl<< "Enter first name :"<<endl;
cin >> temp[0];

cout <<endl<< "Enter last name :"<<endl;
cin>>temp[1];

cout <<endl<< "Enter age :"<<endl;
cin>>temp[2];

cout <<endl<< "Enter birth date (DD/MM/YY) :"<<endl;
cin>>temp[3];

cout <<endl<< "Enter phone number :"<<endl;
cin>>temp[4];

direct();

cout <<endl<< "card created!" <<endl<< endl;
}

void direct() // put info from create() into struct test
{
char name[15];
name = temp[1];
test name;
name.fname = temp[0];
name.lname = temp[1];
name.age = temp[2];
name.bdate = temp[4];
name.tel = temp[3];
}


thx in advance..
luigi

functions can only see functions above them. for example, main can only see direct if direct is above it or prototyped above it.

add a prototype of direct above create, i.e.

void direct();

also, initialize variables/arrays such as temp.

guess i wasnt clear..

ok temp[1] contains a last name right..
so what i want to do is to name a structure by that name..

so if temp[1] = floyd

test temp[1] should equal test floyd

if i create another adress card and the last of that dude is roger then temp[1] will be roger so test temp[1] should equal test roger...

and so on..

how do make that happen?

luigi
thx again..

>how do make that happen?
The way you want to...you don't. If you really must have something like this then create a wrapper structure or use an STL map. You should prefer the latter, but here is a crufty example of the former:

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <cstring>

using namespace std;

struct test // structure of the cards
{
  char fname[15];
  char lname[15];
  char age[3];
  char tel[13];
  char bdate[9];
};

struct wrap
{
  char name[20];
  test content;
};

char temp[5][15];

void direct(wrap *list, int index)
{
  strcpy ( list[index].name, temp[1] );
  strcpy ( list[index].content.fname, temp[0] );
  strcpy ( list[index].content.lname, temp[1] );
  strcpy ( list[index].content.age, temp[2] );
  strcpy ( list[index].content.bdate, temp[3] );
  strcpy ( list[index].content.tel, temp[4] );
}

void create(wrap *list, int index) // gather info and put them into cards
{
  cout <<endl<< "Enter first name :"<<endl;
  cin>>temp[0];

  cout <<endl<< "Enter last name :"<<endl;
  cin>>temp[1];

  cout <<endl<< "Enter age :"<<endl;
  cin>>temp[2];

  cout <<endl<< "Enter birth date (DD/MM/YY) :"<<endl;
  cin>>temp[3];

  cout <<endl<< "Enter phone number :"<<endl;
  cin>>temp[4];

  direct(list, index);

  cout <<endl<< "card created!" <<endl<< endl;
}

// Test driver
int main()
{
  wrap stuff[5];

  create(stuff, 0);
  create(stuff, 1);
  create(stuff, 2);
  create(stuff, 3);
  create(stuff, 4);

  for(int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
    cout<< stuff[i].name << endl << stuff[i].content.lname <<", "<<
      stuff[i].content.fname << endl << stuff[i].content.age << endl <<
      stuff[i].content.bdate << endl << stuff[i].content.tel << endl <<endl;
  }
}

-Prelude