Overloading Operator + Array

I'm suppost to display my entries by overloading the "<<" operator using friend functions. I can currently do:

Code:

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Student Stud1("Williams","Jon","22222",4,5);
cout<<Stud1;

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and everything works. However, all my entries are stored in an array(actually two but i will only refer to one since they are basically the same).
So i was outputting the entries like:

Code:

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cout<<endl<<Array1[A_Pos2].getFirst_Name();
cout<<endl<<Array1[A_Pos2].getLast_Name();
...

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however, i am suppost to make use of the overloaded "<<" operator to output the entries, and I am not sure how to do this.
These are my overloaded friend functions:

Code:

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header file:

friend ostream &operator<< (ostream &, Student &);

function file:

ostream &operator<<(ostream &output, Student &person)
{
       
        output<<"First Name: "<<person.getFirst_Name()<<endl;
        output<<"Last Name: "<<person.getLast_Name()<<endl;
        output<<"Phone Number: "<<person.getPhone_Number()<<endl;
        output<<"GPA: "<<person.GPA<<endl;
        output<<"Hours: "<<person.Hours<<endl;

        return output;
}

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I'm not sure how to output the entries in the array using the overloaded operator. I'm thinking it would be something like:

Code:

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cout<<Array1[A_Pos2];

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I'm not sure what to do.

havent used C++ in a long time so not familiar with everything right now.. also, dont have access to a compiler so cant test any ideas i have.

what i would try is to have a class variable (ie: int size) that keeps track of how large your Student[] is.
in your overloaded << method change the second argument so that it accepts an array of Student(s) not just one student. have a for loop looping over the size of the array, and have the 'output...' statements you have here inside it.

Code:

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ostream &operator<<(ostream &output, Student* &people) // would this work? sorry dont remember syntax!
{
        for (int i = 0; i < size; i ++)
        {
              output<<"First Name: "<<people[i].getFirst_Name()<<endl;
              output<<"Last Name: "<<people[i].getLast_Name()<<endl;
              output<<"Phone Number: "<<people[i].getPhone_Number()<<endl;
              output<<"GPA: "<<people[i].GPA<<endl;
              output<<"Hours: "<<people[i].Hours<<endl << endl;
        }

        return output;
}

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when you want to print it pass the entire array not just one element, cout << Array1;

Ahh, ok. It works now.
Thank You

could you post exactly what you did?
so i can see how far off i was :)

The above doesn't seem very good. Why would a Student need to know how many other students there are. If you want to display data for a collection of students, using a single call to <<, put the array in a StudentDatabase and overload the operator for it.

Without that, use a simple loop to output the students:

Code:

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Student array[size];
for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
    std::cout << array[i];
}

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Another problem with having a Student object keep count of all other students is that it might be hard to make more than one array of them.