Getting back into the swing.

Hey everyone, I've been away from computers and such for a while and I'm just getting back into the swing of things. I am on a computer with no administrator privileges, but fortunately I found a chrome app called sourceLair which allows me to compile and run simple console apps right in Chrome.

Google win.

Anyways, I'm not sure what to program, I need to re-familiarize myself with syntax.

Any suggestions?

Implement an algorithm, in the general form, like they do in <algorithm>, using templates and stuff. (If you don't remember any, implement bubble sort, it's easy). That should get you reacquainted with loops, iterators, containers (since you're writing the algorithm for a general container), and templates.

I've decided to make an employee database, and slowly add functionality to it until it does neat stuff.

This is what I've done so far haha.

Code:

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// Experimentations.cpp : main project file.

#include "stdafx.h"
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <vector>
using namespace std;
string input;

struct employee
{
        string name;
        string birthdate;
        string startdate;
        string enddate;
        string payrate;
};
int main()
{
    cout << "Welcome to the employee database." << endl;
        getline(cin, input);
    return 0;
}

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As you can see it doesn't do anything yet, I'm about to add functionality to be able to edit employee's contents.

Is there any way I can accomplish this without an error?

Code:

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void edit(employee a)
{
        cout << "What would you like to change?" << endl
                << "1. Name" << endl << "2. Payrate" << endl;
        string input;
        getline(cin, input);
        if (input == 1)
        {
                getline(cin, a.name);
        }
        else if (input == 2)
        {
                getline(cin, a.payrate);
        }
        else
        {
                cout << "Please enter a valid selection, 1 or 2." << endl;
        }
}

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I can't find a good tutorial on the basic string on the website, at least not for what I'm attempting to do, is this even possible?

I guess I could avoid the problem by using an integer as input, but i'd have to add more code for error checking and whatnot, and that doesn't seem good, one data type is easier to work with, right?

Reading about stringstreams, don't give me the answer yet!

By George I think I've got it!

Code:

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void edit(employee a)
{
        string input;
        int selection;
        cout << "What would you like to change?" << endl
                << "1. Name" << endl << "2. Payrate" << endl;

        getline(cin, input);
        stringstream(input) >> selection;
        if (selection == 1)
        {
                getline(cin, a.name);
        }
        else if (selection == 2)
        {
                getline(cin, a.payrate);
        }
        else
        {
                cout << "Please enter a valid selection, 1 or 2." << endl;
        }
}

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