defining insertion operator

[caldin]

yeah, it runs the program, but it ends up giving me a debug error after i try to input words that replace specific words within the paragraph in the stream. (such as animal, place, noun1, etc...)

return replaceWith;

that's what i changed it too, but of course it isn't right. don't think, to be perfectly honest with you, i was ever taught specifically about this. anyway to get some more help from you guys? seems this is the last thing i need to do before the program works

[caldin]

so ya, i've been messing around with this, and i can't seem to grasp what i'm doing wrong in replaceWord function.

[maikel]

Sorry, we seem to be in different time zones. For me, you write your posts at 4am.

i think you want to replace all words mathing "toReplace" with "replaceWith". It makes no sense to set toReplace = replaceWith and returning it then ..

try something like this:

void Paragraph::replaceWord(string toReplace, string replaceWith)
{
	for (int i = 0; i < wordCount; i++)  // wordCount is a private member
		if (toReplace == words[i])     // go through all words and check if it matches toReplace
			words[i] = replaceWith; // if yes, set it to replaceWith
}

Normally if you use objects of more complex classes which you do not change in a function you do something like this:

void Paragraph::replaceWord(const string & toReplace, const string & replaceWith)

Like this you do not copy the hole object, instead you just copy the 4 byte length address of your object, when calling the function.

[caldin]

that's alright.

i tried that code, but it gives 2 errors:

Error 1 error C2556: 'void Paragraph::replaceWord(std::string,std::string)' : overloaded function differs only by return type from 'std::string &Paragraph::replaceWord(std::string,std::string)' f:\advancedc++\project 6 (bad libs) chris nelson\bad libs project\main.cpp 208

Error 2 error C2040: 'Paragraph::replaceWord' : 'void (std::string,std::string)' differs in levels of indirection from 'std::string &(std::string,std::string)' f:\advancedc++\project 6 (bad libs) chris nelson\bad libs project\main.cpp 208

[maikel]

yes, because you still have to change the declaration in your class. I used no return type, whereas you did.

You still have a hard time to interpret the error messages! Try to think the cryptic things away and try to decipher what they are telling you.