Thread: user-defined functions

Sorry for bugging you about it...but why use a temporary double (C) to store your stuff before returning it? you can return the formula like so:

This...

Code:

   int F;
   C = (5.0 / 9.0) * (F - 32);
   return C;

Assumming the function takes the argument C
it then becomes this...

Code:

   return ((5.0 / 9.0) * (C - 32));

Originally Posted by sean_mackrory

Code:

GetFahrenheit(F)

That's an example of calling a function.

What is the error you're getting?

The centigrade degree isn't coming out right because when you call the DisplayCentigrade function, you're passing it C, which hasn't been defined. In that same function, you use F to make a calculation. F hasn't been defined in your function either.

How am I supposed to define F and C. I thought I had up in "main" so I'm kinda confused. I also noticed now that I never call the function "computecentigrade". I want to use it, but only to pass it on to "displaycentigrade"... I don't want computecentigrade to output a value in the program. What do I do? Here's another slight revision.

Code:

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int GetFahrenheit(int);
double ComputeCentigrade(int);
double DisplayCentigrade(double);

int main()
{
	int F;
	double C;
	
	cout << "Enter temperature in Fahrenheit: ";
	cin >> F;
	cout << endl;

	cout << "Current temperature = " << GetFahrenheit(F) << "F" << endl;
	cout << "Current temperature = " << DisplayCentigrade(C) << "C" << endl;

	return 0;
}

int GetFahrenheit(int F)
{
	return F;
}

double ComputeCentigrade(int F)
{
	return (5.0 / 9.0) * (F - 32);
}

double DisplayCentigrade(double C)
{
	int F;
	double C;
	C = (5.0 / 9.0) * (F - 32);
	return C;
}

In C and C++, you have 'scope'. If you declare a variable F in main, and then you declare a variable F in another function, they're two different variables. If you refer to F in a function, you're only referring to the version in that function. You could solve this problem by making them 'global' variables. You just declare them before main - maybe right after all you #include's.

Thanks you guys. I really appreciate all your help. I almost have my program the way I want it. The way it is now, there's no more compiling errors or anything and it executes... but there's still something wrong with the way the degrees centigrade comes out. For example, when I input 85 for F... the corresponding C should come out to be 29, but it's coming out something like -1.6667. Suggestions???

Code:

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int GetFahrenheit(int);
double ComputeCentigrade(int);
double DisplayCentigrade(double);
int F;
double C;

int main()
{
	cout << "Enter temperature in Fahrenheit: ";
	cin >> F;
	cout << endl;
	
	C = (5.0 / 9.0) * (F - 32);

	cout << "Current temperature = " << GetFahrenheit(F) << "F" << endl;
	cout << "Current temperature = " << DisplayCentigrade(C) << "C" << endl;

	return 0;
}

int GetFahrenheit(int F)
{
	return F;
}

double ComputeCentigrade(int F)
{
	double C;
	C = (5.0 / 9.0) * (F - 32);
	return C;
}

double DisplayCentigrade(double C)
{
	return ComputeCentigrade(C);
}

Thank you!!!