c++ problem

3 Nov 2003

      Hi all,

I am very new to programming and am currently learning C++.
At the moment I'm at the stage of structures and classes, so am writing
many programs oriented around this to help. I have written a simple
problem which I cannot get to run.

Usually I have no big problems as the compiler aids me in debugging,
however this program compiles and I am not up to the stage of using a
debugging tool like GDB yet.

My program seems to jump after asking the age and when complete gives
very strange outputs.

I can't paste an error report with this as there is no error, hopefully
somebody can show me where I'm going wrong.

Code as follows:

#include <iostream.h>
#include <string.h>

struct students student_info(struct students data);
void print(struct students data);

#define MAX_STU 5

struct students {
            char name[30];
            int age;
            char grade[2];
            int iq;
};

main() {

            students student[MAX_STU];
            int i;

            //get the data
            for (i=1; i<=MAX_STU; ++i) {
                        student[i] = student_info(student[i]);
            }

            //print the data
            for (i=1; i<=MAX_STU; ++i) {
                        print(student[i]);
            }
}

struct students student_info(struct students data) {
            cout << "what is the students name: ";
            cin.getline (data.name, 30);
            cout << "What is the students age: ";
            cin >> data.age;
            cout << "What is the students grade: ";
            cin.getline (data.name, 30);
            cout << "What is the students IQ: ";
            cin >> data.iq;

            return (data);
}

void print(struct students data) {
            cout << "Name: " << data.name << endl;
            cout << "Age:    " << data.age << endl;
            cout << "Grade: " << data.grade << endl;
            cout << "IQ:      " << data.iq << endl << endl;

}

thanks 

Gedi