Thread: Operator Help Please

I am trying to over load the insertion operator to work with a class. I want to use get() to load a character array inside the operator but I am having trouble. Here is a simple example to illustrate what I am trying to do in a larger program.

Code:

 
#include <iostream.h>
const int MAX = 30; 
class Person 
{ 
private: 
	int age; 
	char gender; 
                char name[MAX]; 
public: 
	friend istream& operator >> (istream&, Person&);
	friend ostream& operator << (ostream&, Person&);
}; 
istream& operator >> (istream& in, Person& x) 
{ 
	cout <<"\nEnter Age:";    in >> x.age; 
	cout <<"\nEnter Gender:"; in >> x.gender; 
	cout <<"\nEnter Name:";   cin.ignore(); x.cin.get(name,MAX);
	return in;} 
ostream& operator << (ostream& out, Person& x) 
{ 
	cout << "\nAGE:";    out << x.age; 
	cout << "\nGENDER:"; out << x.gender; 	
	cout << "\nNAME:";   out << x.name;
	return out;} 
int main() 
{ 
	Person p; 
	cin >> p; 
	cout << p; 
	return 0; 
}

I have tried this a few different ways, but obviously cin is not a member of Person so that's pretty much my problem. Am I just going to have write a member function to load this array or is there any other way around this. Thanks. MSVC++6.0