Difficulty on finding what is causing this error

[PatCioe]

I am using g++ to compile this for school and I keep getting this message:
error: expected primary-expression before â=â token

I've looked around and still, even on google I can't find out what is wrong. I've been at it for a few hopurs now changing things up and reading but still can't get it to run any suggestions?

class Hitter:public BaseballPlayer
{

char bats;
int hits;
int atbats;
float average;

public:

Hitter(string name = "", int h = 0, int w = 0, char b = BATS_UNINITIALIZED, int ab = 0, int numHits = 0);
float calc_average();
virtual void load_player(ifstream&);
virtual void print_player() const;
char get_bats() const;
int get_hits() const;
int get_atbats() const;
float get_average() const;

};

The error appears in the constructor, here is the implementation:

Hitter::Hitter(string name, int h, int w, char b, int ab, int numHits):BaseballPlayer(name, h, w)
{
bats = b;
hits = numHits;
atbats = ab;

average = calc_average();
}

Thanks everyone.
-Pat

[firedraco]

What line is it on (exactly)?

[PatCioe]

There error indicates that it's on line 37 in .h which is the:

Hitter(string name = "", int h = 0, int w = 0, char b = BATS_UNINITIALIZED, int ab = 0, int numHits = 0);

[tummychow]

You need to put your code in code tags.
Where do you define the field for BATS_UNINITIALIZED?

[PatCioe]

just before:

class Hitter:public BaseballPlayer
{


looks like this:

#include<iostream>
#include<fstream>
#include "BaseballPlayer.h"

#ifndef HITTER_H
#define HITTER_H

using namespace std;

#define BATS_UNINITIALIZED = 'U'

class Hitter:public BaseballPlayer
{

[tummychow]

Hmmm... try replacing bats_uninitialized (in your constructor) with the character 'U'. Do you still get an error?

[1yR4jE8b]

When you define a preprocessor macro, you don't assign it.

You have:

#define BATS_UNITIALIZED = 'U'

it should just be

#define BATS_UNITIALIZED 'U'

[PatCioe]

It does get rid of it.

[tummychow]

If I had a specific value like in that case, I'd rather define const char BATS_UNINITIALIZED = 'U'; than a preprocessor macro.

[PatCioe]

That was it. Thanks a lot for your help guys. Now it's time for some new compile errors that need fixing. Thanks again. I've been working on this for hours.