Thread: Need some help on class inheritance

I'm working on a project for my computer science class and I've come upon a problem that I cannot figure out how to implement. The class PERSON was provided by the instructor and the assignment was to write a new class EMPLOYEE inheriting the functions of PERSON. The one thing that I am having a problem with is not inheriting the class PERSON but rather writing a constructor that allows the assignment of an object from class PERSON to an EMPLOYEE. I.E.

This is the constructor that I wrote to set all data for the PERSON and EMPLOYEE class at once:

employee::employee(char *n, char *s, char *d, char *b, int h,
int w, char *companyName,
char *companyDivision)
: person(n,s,d,b,h,w)

Now, what I'm having trouble with is:

employee::employee(const person &p, char *companyName,
char *companyDivision)

Someone please help me as to how I could assign a person to the employee. Thanx in advance.

You could do something like -

Code:

#include <string>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

class Person
{
	string name;
public:
	Person (string n):name(n){}
	Person ():name("Joe"){}
	friend ostream& operator << (ostream& os, const Person& p){
		return os << p.name;
	}
};

class Employee : public Person
{
	double salary;
public:
	Employee(Person p, double s):Person(p),salary(s){		
		
	}
	friend ostream& operator << (ostream& os,const Employee& e)	{
		return os << static_cast<Person>(e) << " : " << e.salary;
	}
};


int main()
{
	Person p("Me");
    Employee e(p,0.57);
	cout << e;
	return 0;
}