passing bye parts of program

in a currecnt program i am working on, i have places where the user would enter there first and last name. when i run the program, it completly passes bye that part and fills in all the other fields aswell. and then later when the name is ouputed it has no value.
here is the part of the code:

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cout << "\n\nFirst Name: ";
    cin.get(V.FirstName,20);
    cin.ignore(80,'\n');
                     
    V.FirstName[0]=toupper(V.FirstName[0]);
                     
    cout << "\nLast Name: ";
    cin.get(V.LastName,30);
    cin.ignore(80,'\n');
                     
    V.LastName[0]=toupper(V.LastName[0]);
               
    strcpy(V.FullName, V.FirstName);
    strcat(V.FullName, " ");
    strcat(V.FullName, V.LastName);

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as you can see i use the cin.get and cin.ignore since they are character strings and i am using a struct which is why there is a V. and then variable name

also this is the first program i passed structs from one function to another

here is the struct:

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struct Variables
{
  char FirstName[20], LastName[30], FullName[50], Password[10], PW[10], User, Print, acnumber[8];
  int Attempts;
  float Balance, Deposits, Withdrawls, NewBalance;
};

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and here's main if you need it:

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int main ()
{
  Variables V;
 
  V.Attempts=0;
  V.Balance=0;
  V.Deposits=0;
  V.Withdrawls=0;
  V.NewBalance=0;
 
  Intro(V);
 
  AccountNumber(V);
 
  createorisregistered(V);
   
  printcorrect(V);
 
  getch();
  return 0;
}

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can anyone explain why these things are being passed bye wen running the program? thanks for your help in advance.

is that part of code being called by main()?

It seems to work for me. This code produces the following output:

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#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

struct Variables
{
  char FirstName[20], LastName[30], FullName[50], Password[10], PW[10], User, Print, acnumber[8];
  int Attempts;
  float Balance, Deposits, Withdrawls, NewBalance;
};


int main ()
{
        Variables V;

        V.Attempts=0;
        V.Balance=0;
        V.Deposits=0;
        V.Withdrawls=0;
        V.NewBalance=0;

        cout << "\n\nFirst Name: ";
        cin.get(V.FirstName,20);
        cin.ignore(80,'\n');
             
        V.FirstName[0]=toupper(V.FirstName[0]);
             
        cout << "\nLast Name: ";
        cin.get(V.LastName,30);
        cin.ignore(80,'\n');
             
        V.LastName[0]=toupper(V.LastName[0]);
       
        strcpy(V.FullName, V.FirstName);
        strcat(V.FullName, " ");
        strcat(V.FullName, V.LastName);

        cout<<V.FirstName<<endl;
        cout<<V.LastName<<endl;
        cout<<V.FullName<<endl;

        return 0;
}

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output:

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First Name: tom

Last Name: smith
Tom
Smith
Tom Smith
Press any key to continue

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Make sure you declare your function to pass the class or struct by reference (&) when the function you are passing it to needs to modify it:

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  void createorisregistered(Variables &V)

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For function printcorrect(), you can just pass by value, although since your struct has several members, passing by reference might be better in this case also:

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void printcorrect(Variables &V)

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i think i am passing by reference...

heres all the code if it helps:

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//Dan Kemper
//Intermediate Computer Programming
//This is a bank program

//includes header files
#include <conio.h>
#include <iostream>       
#include <fstream>       
#include <iomanip>
#include <windows.h>
#include <cctype>       

//required for cout and cin
using namespace std;       

struct Variables
{
  char FirstName[20], LastName[30], FullName[50], Password[10], PW[10], User, Print, acnumber[8];
  int Attempts;
  float Balance, Deposits, Withdrawls, NewBalance;
};

void Intro(Variables &V);

void AccountNumber(Variables &V);

void SignIn(Variables &V);

void ifcorrect(Variables &V);

void createorisregistered(Variables &V);

void ifincorrect(Variables &V);

void createaccount(Variables &V);

void printcorrect(Variables &V);

int main ()
{
  Variables V;
 
  V.Attempts=0;
  V.Balance=0;
  V.Deposits=0;
  V.Withdrawls=0;
  V.NewBalance=0;
 
  Intro(V);
 
  AccountNumber(V);
 
  createorisregistered(V);
   
  printcorrect(V);
 
  getch();
  return 0;
}

void Intro(Variables &V)
{
  cout << "      AAA        TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT\n";
  cout << "      AAAAA        TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT\n";
  cout << "    AAA AAA            TTTTTT      MMMMMM        MMMMMM\n";
  cout << "    AAA  AAA          TTTTTT      MMM MMM      MMM MMM\n";
  cout << "  AAAAAAAAAAA          TTTTTT      MMM  MMM    MMM  MMM\n";
  cout << "  AAAAAAAAAAAAA        TTTTTT      MMM  MMM  MMM  MMM\n";
  cout << " AAA        AAA        TTTTTT      MMM    MMM MMM    MMM\n";
  cout << "AAA          AAA      TTTTTT      MMM    MMMMM    MMM\n";
  cout << "\nThis is a bank program.\n";
  cout << "\nPress [ENTER] to continue...\n";
  cin.get();
  system("cls");
 
  cout << "Are you a registered user (A), or would you like to create an account (B)? ";
  cin >> V.User;
  system("cls");
}

void createorisregistered(Variables &V)
{
  if (V.User=='a' || V.User=='A')
  {
      SignIn(V);
               
                if (V.Password==V.PW)
                {
                    ifcorrect(V);
                }
                if (V.Password!=V.PW)
                {
                    ifincorrect(V);
                }
  }
 
  if (V.User=='b' || V.User=='B')
  {
      createaccount(V);
  }
}

void SignIn(Variables &V)
{   
    ifstream infile; //declares file pointer named infile
    infile.open("Password.dat",ios::in); //opens dat file which has password in it
    infile.get(V.PW,10); //gets password from file
    infile.ignore(80, '\n');
    infile.close();
               
    infile.open("Balance.dat",ios::in);
               
    cout << "First Name: ";
    cin.get(V.FirstName,20);
    cin.ignore(80,'\n');

    V.FirstName[0]=toupper(V.FirstName[0]);
               
    cout << "\nLast Name: ";
    cin.get(V.LastName,30);
    cin.ignore(80,'\n');
               
    V.LastName[0]=toupper(V.LastName[0]);
               
    strcpy(V.FullName, V.FirstName);
    strcat(V.FullName, " ");
    strcat(V.FullName, V.LastName);
               
    system("cls");
               
    cout << V.FullName << ", what is your password: ";
    cin.get(V.Password,10);
    cin.ignore(80, '\n');
    cout << V.PW;
    getch();
    system("cls");
}

void ifcorrect(Variables &V)
{
    cout << "Account Number: " << V.acnumber << "\n";
    cout << "Balance: " << V.NewBalance;
    cout << "\n\nDeposits: ";
    cin >> V.Deposits;
    cout << "\n\nWithdrawls: ";
    cin >> V.Withdrawls;
    cout << "\n\nNew Balance: " << V.NewBalance;
    cout << "\n\n" << V.FullName << ", is all the above information correct (Y/N)? ";
    cin >> V.Print;
}

void ifincorrect(Variables &V)
{
    do
    {
        cout << "\n\nThat was the incorrect password!\a\a\a";
        getch();
        system("cls");
        cout << "Try again: ";
        cin >> V.Password;
        if (V.Password==V.PW)
        {
              break;
        }
        if (V.Attempts==3)
        {
        cout << "I'm sorry, but you have made too many incorrect attempts. Please try again later.";
        }
        V.Attempts++;
        }
        while (V.Attempts<=3);
}

void createaccount(Variables &V)
{
    cout << "Your account number will be: " << V.acnumber;
    cout << "\n\nFirst Name: ";
    cin.get(V.FirstName,20);
    cin.ignore(80,'\n');
                     
    V.FirstName[0]=toupper(V.FirstName[0]);
                     
    cout << "\nLast Name: ";
    cin.get(V.LastName,30);
    cin.ignore(80,'\n');
                     
    V.LastName[0]=toupper(V.LastName[0]);
               
    strcpy(V.FullName, V.FirstName);
    strcat(V.FullName, " ");
    strcat(V.FullName, V.LastName);
                     
    system("cls");
                     
    cout << V.FullName << ", pick your password and don't forget it: ";
    cin.get(V.Password, 10);
    cin.ignore(80, '\n');
    cout << "\nAccount Number: " << V.acnumber;
    cout << "\nDeposits: ";
    cin >> V.Deposits;
    cout << "\nWithdrawls: ";
    cin >> V.Withdrawls;
                     
    V.NewBalance=V.Balance+V.Deposits-V.Withdrawls;
                     
    cout << "\nBalance: ";
    cout << setiosflags (ios::fixed) << setprecision(2) << V.NewBalance ;
    cout << "\n\n" << V.FullName << ", is all the above information correct (Y/N)? ";
    cin >> V.Print;
}

void printcorrect(Variables &V)
{
    if (V.Print=='y' || V.Print=='Y')
    {
    ofstream outfile ("Bank.txt");
    outfile << V.FullName;
    outfile << "\nPassword: *******";
    outfile << "\n\nDeposits: " << V.Deposits;
    outfile << "\nBalance: " << V.Deposits;
    outfile << "\nThank you!";
    outfile.close();
    ofstream  pwfile ("Passwords.dat");
    pwfile << V.Password;
    pwfile.close();
    ofstream balancefile ("Balance.dat");
    balancefile << V.NewBalance;
    cout << "\n\nThank You!\a";
    }
}

void AccountNumber(Variables &V)
{
  srand((unsigned)time(0));
  for ( int i = 0; i < 8; i++ )
  {
      V.acnumber[i] = rand() % 10 + '0';
  }
  V.acnumber[7] = '\0';
}

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> cin >> V.User;
This cin is going to leave a newline in the input buffer, and since you're using get()'s shortly thereafter, the get()'s are going to read the newline, then continue. So you probably want to add a cin.ignore right after the above:

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  cin >> V.User;
  cin.ignore(80, '\n');

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