Thread: New to programming, haven't seen this error before

I am beginning to write a program and before I continue writing it I want to get this resolved to make sure that my menu works. I am getting the error

Code:

"error: expected unqualified-id before '{' token"

for lines 71, 78, 85, and 92 (the opening brackets for 4 of the void function definitions). I did a google search but came up with nothing that resolved the issue so here I am. Any help would be much appreciated, and if you could post a modified version of my code that would really help me to understand what you say.

Code:

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#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <cstdlib>
using namespace std;


void menu_options (int& ch);


void display_cat ();


void search_for_cat ();


void cat_most ();


void cat_least ();


int main()
{


  int choice;


  cout.setf(ios::fixed);
  cout.setf(ios::showpoint);
  cout.precision(2);


  do {
    menu_options (choice);
    switch (choice)
    {
      case 1: display_cat ();
              break;
      case 2: search_for_cat ();
              break;
      case 3: cat_most ();
              break;
      case 4: cat_least ();
              break;
      case 5: cout << "Thank you for using my program\n\n";
              break;
      default: cout << "Please enter a valid choice:\n";
    }
    } while (choice != 5);


}


void menu_options (int& ch)
{


  cout << "1 - display total" << endl


  cout << "1 - display total" << endl
       << "2 - search for categories" << endl
       << "3 - category that cost the most" << endl
       << "4 - category that cost the least" << endl
       << "5 - exit" << endl << endl
       << "Enter your choice --> " << endl << endl;


  cin >> ch;


}


void display_cat ();
{


  cout << "This is category 1 (one)";


}


void search_for_cat ();
{


  cout << "This is category 2 (two)";


}


void cat_most ();
{


  cout << "This is category 3 (three)";




}


void cat_least ();
{


  cout << "This is category 4 (four)";


}

Code:

cout << "1 - display total" << endl

Where's the terminating semi-colon here?

Code:

void display_cat ();
{
...
}

Copying and pasting prototypes without attention to detail often leads to this problem. Do you see it?

that did it, thanks so much man!