New subject: AW: [suse-programming-e] c++ problem

3 Nov 2003

      Hi Peter,

Thanks for the input. That was a silly mistake on my part which I had
overlooked.

However, that was not the cause of the problem.
I am thinking it has something to do with the area around 'cin >>
data.age;' in the 'student_info' function, as this is where the problem
occurs.

However, I don't yet have the experience to pinpoint it.

Thanks

Gedi

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From: Peter Morreale 
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You test in the "for" loops is wrong, it should be:

for(i = 0; i < MAX_STU; i++)
            ^^^^^^^^^^^

By saying "<=" you are accessing students[5] which is out-of-bounds.

Recall that arrays start from zero, not 1.

-PWM

Gedi wrote:
...
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
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