interested in helping????

[Unregistered]

Hi all, I am so impressed with you, you do great with this stuff. I am at the end of my class, thank goodness. I will always have total respect for you!
I am completely lost. I think I have messed up and can't even figure out what I am doing wrong and what I need to do to make this compile. Please Please help me!!!!


//This is a personal address book that contains many enteries.


#include <iostream.h>

main()


{

struct AddressBook //header for structure and able to enter 10 people

{



char Name[15]; //declaring the name and size of 15 characters
char Address[15];
char City[25];
int age[3]; //declaring the age and 3 intergers
char zip[5];
char phonenumber[10];

};



input (void)


{


cout<<"Welcome to my address book!\n"


cout<<"Enter the information into the address book!\n";

cout<< Enter the Name: ";
cin.getline (Name, 20);

cout<<"Enter the address: ";
cin.getline (Address, 20);

cout<<"Enter the City and abbreviated state: ";
cin.getline (City,30);

cout<<"Enter the Zip code: ";
cin.getline (Zip, 6);

cout<<"Enter the phone number including area code (please do not add a hypen or space): ";
cin.getline (Phonenumber, 10);

cout<<"Enter the age of this person: ";
cin.getline (Age,3);
AddressbookOutput.write((char *)&AddressbookOutput, sizeof(AddressbookList));


}

[salvelinus]

Try int main(), and returning 0 (zero).
What is input(void)? Nothing, as far as I can see.
How is the info supposed to get into your struct? Name, etc, are struct members, not global or local variables.
Why do you declare Name as char[15] but cin 20? (assuming that line would work anyway)?
And why is Age declared as int[3]? An int from -32767 to 32768 (on most systems) is still one int. Doesn't matter if the person is 7 years old, 12, or 153. Just use int.

[Traveller]

why don't you try this:

#include <iostream.h>

struct AddressBook //header for structure and able to enter 10 people

{
char Name[15]; //declaring the name and size of 15 characters
char Address[15];
char City[25];
int age; //declaring the age and 3 intergers
char zip[5];
char phonenumber[10];
};

int main()
{
AddressBook AddBk;

cout<<"Welcome to my address book!\n";
cout<<"Enter the information into the address book!\n";
cout<< Enter the Name: ";
cin.getline (AddBk.Name, 16);
cout<<"Enter the address: ";
cin.getline (AddBk.Address, 16);
cout<<"Enter the City and abbreviated state: ";
cin.getline (AddBk.City,26);
cout<<"Enter the Zip code: ";
cin.getline (AddBk.Zip, 6);
cout<<"Enter the phone number including area code (please do not add a hypen or space): ";
cin.getline (AddBk.Phonenumber, 11);
cout<<"Enter the age of this person: ";
cin>>AddBk.age;
AddressbookOutput.write((char *)&AddressbookOutput, sizeof(AddressbookList));
return 0;
}

[Unregistered]

Okay, so that was great. I now have only 3 errors,



What do I need to do to make this output many addresses?? Is that the correct statement (at the end)


AddressbookOutput.write((char *)&AddressbookOutput, sizeof(AddressbookList));




thanks, I appreciate your help!!!

[Traveller]

I'm assuming you are trying to print to the screen since we you never opened a file so scratch the write thing and:

cout<<AddBk.Name<<", "<<Addbk.Age<<endl;
cout<<AddBk.Address<<endl;
cout<<AddBk.City<<", "<<AddBk.zip<<endl;
cout<<AddBk.phonenumber<<endl;


This should work. If you're trying to create a file and write to it we have some stuff to talk about.

[Unregistered]

so explain to me in laymans terms what they mean in writing to it???

Okay, so I did that it and it compiled....yeah!
Now, I need to keep it going to add more addresses to the book.

Is this where I I need to have
ios::in | ios::binary

????

(thanks!)

[Traveller]

Alright, to do this the right way we get into an array of structures.
You define the array like this: AddressBook AddBk[9];
Now from their just dump the whole cin statements into a for statement.

Note: You can access each individual structure like this: cin.getline(AddBk[0].Name, 16);

Also the same thing for the cout statements.

PS: What do you mean by 'writing to it'?

Edit: AddBk[0] being the first structure in the array. Also the for statement would define a variable like this:

for(int i=0, i<10, i++)
{
cin.getline(AddBk[i].Name, 16);
//ect..
}

Edit1: The best way to do this would be to break it up into functions( from a good programming practice point of view). If you need help on this just post.

[Unregistered]

thanks so very much! You got me going well. I appreciate your help!!!