Problem using char's in classes.

[RealityFusion]

This isn't working for some reason:

char Cat::SetAge(char age)

   {

    itsAge = age;
    }
char Cat::GetAge()

    {

    return itsAge;
    }

18 C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\Untitled1.cpp
prototype for ` candidate is C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\Untitled1.cpp:8
int


I am out of ideas to what is wrong.

[confuted]

OS/Compiler?

Anyway, you're not returning a value from SetAge()

[PJYelton]

You'll have to post the whole code. The only thing I see wrong is that your first function doesn't return anything even though you have it defined as returning a char. My guess is that you meant for that function to be void. But most compilers would still compile that, just give you a warning.

Also, shouldn't the cats age be an integer and not a char?

[RealityFusion]

class Cat
    {
    public:
        int GetAge();
        int SetAge(char age);
        int SetWeight(int weight);
        int GetWeight();
        void Meow();
    private:
        int itsAge;
        int itsWeight;
    };
//=========setting up the age=============//    
char Cat::SetAge(char age)
    {
    itsAge = age;
    }
char Cat::GetAge()
    {
    return itsAge;
    }

//===============Ending the age==============//
//==============Setting up its Weight=========//
int Cat::GetWeight()
    {
    return itsWeight;
    }
int Cat::SetWeight(int weight)
    {
   itsWeight=weight;
    }
//==============Ending its weight===============//

void Cat::Meow()
    {
    cout <<"Meow" <<endl;
    }

widows xp dev-c++ 4.9.8.0

[PJYelton]

Its because you have your functions declared differently inside the class and outside the class. Inside they are all returning ints, outside some are returning chars. Make sure that every function that returns NOTHING is void, not int or char or whatever. Also make sure that your functions are written EXACTLY the same inside and outside the function, otherwise the compiler will view them as different and will complain that it can't find the function it is looking for.

[RealityFusion]

NvM I figured it out!

[RealityFusion]

Ok, now I am trying to make user input be a chacater string in my class. And I think this is how I would do it:

How I declared it in class:

class Cat
    {
    public:
        char GetAge();
        char SetAge(char age[20]);

This is how I defined it:

char Cat::SetAge(char age[20])
    {
    itsAge = age[20];
    }

This is how I called it in main():

char age[20];      
        Cat Frisky;
        cout <<"Enter age of Cat." <<endl;
        cin.getline (age, 20);
        Frisky.SetAge(age[20]);
        cout <<Frisky.GetAge();
        cout <<endl;

But I get an error message:
51 C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\Untitled1.cpp
invalid initialization

[XSquared]

>>itsAge = age[20];
Nope.

sscanf( age, "%d", &itsAge );

[elad]

class Cat
{
    public:
        char GetName();
        void SetName(char * name_);
    private:
        char name[20];
}; 

This is how I defined it:

void Cat::SetName(char * name_)
    {
       strcpy(name, name_);
    }

This is how I called it in main():

char name_[20];      
        Cat Frisky;
        cout <<"Enter age of Cat." <<endl;
        cin.getline (name_, 20);
        Frisky.SetName(name_);
        cout <<Frisky.GetName();
        cout <<endl;

[RealityFusion]

Originally posted by XSquared
sscanf( age, "%d", &itsAge ); [/B]

What does that do and mean?

[elad]

It's C code that says: take the integer stored at the address of itsAge and store it in the null-terminated char array called age---if I remember my C correctly

Edit:
looked it up:

sscanf reads from the C style string (first parameter)and sends that value to the target (third parameter) using the format of the second parameter, similar to atoi() atof() and atol() accept the third argument can be char, etc. as well as a numerical type.

sprintf changes the value of the third parameter which is of the type of the second parameter into the first first argument which is a C style string.

[Zach L.]

Right. And the "%d" is a format specifier which says take the first argument (which is an integer) and put it in the string.

Try using std::string in <string> header instead. They are easier to use, and don't leak memory or have buffer overrun errors.