Quote:Original post by jpetrie
EDIT: Nevermind.


That's some ugly code. The use of char* for strings in C++ is, as you mentioned, particularly nasty. The most obvious think I see is that you need to qualify objects in the std namespace (std::cout) or insert a "using std::cout" or "using namespace std" near the top someplace. Unless stocks.h has it... but that would be evil as well.

Use std::string unless your teacher/professor has explicitly forbid it (or explicitly required char*... in which case change the return type of GetMonth() to const char* at least).

Quote:Original post by Paulius Maruska
For a start - put some newlines at the end of your "stocks.h" file.
Unlike Visual C++, gcc has some problems if there is no newline symbols at the end of included header file (had some problems with this issue myself).

Quote:Original post by jpetrie
What does your header file look like?

[SOURCE]#ifndef STOCKS_H#define STOCKS_Hstruct stock{	char symbol[5];	struct Data	{		float open;		float high;		float low;		float close;	} data[744]; //31 Slots Per Month};struct date {int day, month, year;};int SymCheck(char * sym);    /* Pre-Conditions:	 *  Needs 5-Digit Stock Symbol	 *	 * Post-Conditions:	 *  Returns 1 if symbol doesn't work	 *  Returns 0 if symbol does work	 */struct stock & LoadData(char * sym, struct stock &x);	/* Pre-Conditions:	 *   Needs 4-Digit Stock Symbol	 *   Needs Reference to stock struct	 *	 * Post-Conditions:	 *   Returns reference to created struct	 */int DateConv(struct date & d);	/* Pre-Conditions:	 *  Date Struct to convert	 *	 * Post-Conditions:	 *  Returns pos. in array for stock data	 */void PrintData(struct stock &);char * GetMonth(int i)#endif[/SOURCE]

char * GetMonth(int i)

Quote:Original post by Sr_Guapo
you are missing a semicolon on this line:

char * GetMonth(int i)

Quote:Original post by BringBackFuturama

Quote:Original post by Sr_Guapo
you are missing a semicolon on this line:

char * GetMonth(int i)

Heh..guess so. Don't know why that'd give me those errors though.

Quote:Original post by jpetrie
Bingo.

To the OP: the reason the errors appear to original in some headers you don't yourself include (such as cstddef) is because your header (which was missing the semicolon) was included before you include <iostream>. Since #include is just a textual substitution, and iostream probably includes some files itself (such as cstddef, eventually) the first errors the compiler sees appear to be in files that are not yours. If you had switched the include order, you might have had a an easier time tracking the mistake down.

Is this a C course or a C++ course, by the way? Because your mixing styles from both languages... which is generally bad, because they are very different languages dispite the apparent level of syntactic similarity.