Thread: Structures Help

changed all that you have said to a string. everything loads and i can put information in and i believe that all the functions are working correctly. the only problem now is that i dont know if it is getting stucture and is then passing it to the function by the caller. then the function collects the data and then on the return to the caller the stucture contains the useres details. then main() should output the contents of the structure.

this is the new code with the strings added

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>

using namespace std;


struct myStruct
{
   string name;
   int age;
   string course;
};

void myFunc1(myStruct m)    // by value
{
    	cout << "First Name: ";
        cin >> m.name;    <----------------------------is this needed still?
}

void myFunc2(myStruct &m)  // by reference
{
    cout<<"Age: ";
    cin>>m.age;
}

void myFunc3(myStruct &m)
{
    cout<<"Course: ";
    cin >>m.course;
}

int main()
{
    myStruct m;
    myFunc1(m);
    myFunc2(m);
    myFunc3(m);
    system("pause");
}

If you access the struct by its pointer or reference
then the first function can fill it
The second - process the data
And the 3rd - output results

Code:

    myStruct m;
    myFunc1(&m);

to call...

Code:

void myFunc1(myStruct& m)    // by reference
{
    cout << "First Name: ";
    cin >> m.name;    
}