send to function

[ogward]

Hi there!

I have a function in club.cpp that looks like this.

void Club::addMember(string name, string birthDate)
{
	if(this->nrOfMembers==this->capacity)
	{
		this->capacity+=2;
		Member **temp=new Member*[this->capacity];
		for(int i=0;i<this->capacity;i++)
		{
			temp[i]=NULL;
		}

		for(int i=0;i<this->nrOfMembers;i++)
		{
			temp[i]=this->members[i];
		}
		delete [] this->members;
		this->members=temp;
		temp=NULL;

	}

	this->members[this->nrOfMembers++]= new Member ( name, birthDate);
}

and from a function in main I want to send strings to the function above, and our teacher showed us how it was supposed to be done, but looks like I've forgotten a small detail. This is what I've written so far.

void addMember(string name, string birthDate)
{
	cout<<"Name: ";
	cin.ignore();
	getline(cin, name);
	cout<<"Born: ";
	getline(cin, birthDate);

	Club c1.addMember(name, birthDate);
}

I know that the function overload is not the best but I'll fix that later.
My question is how should the last line look? I would like to send name and birthDate to the first function that i wrote above.

thanks in advance.

[simeonz]

First, the current set-up doesn't make sense.

What you may want to do, but you have to decide from your problem description:

1. Have a function that prompts the user for name and birth-date and inserts new record into the collection:

void addMember(Club& c)
{
	cout<<"Name: ";
	cin.ignore();
	getline(cin, name);
	cout<<"Born: ";
	getline(cin, birthDate);

        c.addMember(name, birthDate);
}

And you can use it from the top-level code:

int main()
{
        //...
	Club c; //Assuming there is default constructor
        //...
        addMember(c);
        //...
}

2. Create a Club object in the top-level code and do the entire procedure directly there:

int main()
{
        //...
	Club c; //Assuming there is default constructor
        //...
	cout<<"Name: ";
	cin.ignore();
	getline(cin, name);
	cout<<"Born: ";
	getline(cin, birthDate);

        c.addMember(name, birthDate);
        //...
}

Regards

[ogward]

Thanks a lot dude, the thing that i forgot is the call-by-reference.

Everything works like a charm now.