Thread: Strang Error...

Hey,

I'm writing a simple program that finds the volume of a cylinder, but I keep getting a strange error message: 1>.\Volume.cpp(6) : error C2447: '{' : missing function header (old-style formal list?)

Here's the code:

Code:

#include<iostream>

using namespace std;

int main ();
{
	int radius, height, volume;

	cout << "Enter the radius..." << '\n' << endl;
	cin >> radius;

	cout << '\n' << "Enter the height..." << '\n' << endl;
	cin >> height;

	volume = 3.1415 * r * r * h;

	cout << '\n' << "The volume is " << volume << endl;

	return (0);
}

Hope someone can help...thanks.

Code:

int main ();

You only use the semicolon when making function prototypes -- so the compiler thought you were declaring a prototype of int main, and then wondered what all this stuff was in the curly braces.

Code:

#include<iostream>

using namespace std;

int main ()
{
	int radius, height, volume;

	cout << "Enter the radius..." << endl;
	cin >> radius;

	cout <<  "Enter the height..." << endl;
	cin >> height;

	volume =(3.1415 *radius *radius *height);

	cout  << "The volume is " << volume << endl;

	return 0;
}

Thanks....stupid mistake