using map with a class method

[FireNutz]

Hi,
I am stumped as to how I can access a map container. I am reading the key into the map via file I/O and later on in my program I want to print the contents of the map using a class print method. My problem is I don't know how to access my specific map in the print method. I can't pass it to the class (that I know of) because the key is not global and I can't pass it by reference because the class doesn't know what my map is.
This is what I have so far

void SRC::PrintSRCInfo()
{
	
	// print out Student Record
	Records::iterator n;
	cout << "Now the Record looks like:\n";
	cout << "The ID is " << n->first << " ";
	cout << "The Grade is " << n->second.TheGrade << " ";
	cout << "The Name is " << n->second.TheName << endl;
}

*edit Records is a typedef for my map

typedef map<int,SRC> Records;

[MiiNiPaa]

Is map a member of this class?
Or should it be passed externally?
Why you cannot use following code:

void SRC::PrintSRCInfo(const Record& rmap)
{
	// print out Student Record
	cout << "Now the Record looks like:\n";
	for(const auto& n: rmap) {
		cout << "The ID is " << n.first << " ";
		cout << "The Grade is " << n.second.TheGrade << " ";
		cout << "The Name is " << n.second.TheName << endl;
	}
}

[FireNutz]

I don't think that works because map is using the SRC class right? I tried to put it in private but it didn't like map there(without the typedef).

[MiiNiPaa]

I don't think that works because map is using the SRC class right?

Class members can accept its class and containers of said class as arguments.
Just try it.

[FireNutz]

where does the map container go in my class declaration?

[MiiNiPaa]

Wherever you need it. If you need it, that it.

[FireNutz]

I've put it above public, in public and in private and the print method will not accept it. I get an error C2061 identifier Records

[MiiNiPaa]

How do you use it?

[ne555]

http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/articles/40071/#msg216270

¿how is your code different from this?

void print_map(std::map<int, std::string> &m){

}

int main(){
   std::map<int, std::string> a_map;
   print_map( a_map );
}

[MiiNiPaa]

Fun thing that error C2061 identifier Records is probably full error message.
http://cboard.cprogramming.com/cplusplus-programming/117317-error-c2061-syntax-error-identifier.html

[FireNutz]

I figured it out it was suppose to be in public and I was calling it incorrectly in my code.

I was doing this

Records SR;

instead of this

SRC::Records SR;

and the print method ended up looking like this

// class declaration
void PrintSRCInfo(Records& rmap);
// class implementation
void SRC::PrintSRCInfo(Records& rmap)
{
	SRC::Records::iterator n;
	cout << "Now the Record looks like:\n";
	for(n = rmap.begin(); n != rmap.end(); n++)
	{
	                cout << "The ID is " << n->first << " ";
		cout << "The Grade is " << n->second.TheGrade << " ";
		cout << "The Name is " << n->second.TheName << endl;
	}
}

thanks for all your help!!

[ne555]

// class declaration
void PrintSRCInfo(Records& rmap);

if you are not using the state of the caller object, then it shouldn't be a non-static member function.

@MiiNiPaa: quite funny, indeed.