Question

I am having issues creating an object for my class, I am getting errors trying to create the class object with the defined data members.

// class header for employee
#pragma once
#include <string>
#include <iostream>
class Employee
{
private:
    std::string name;
    int empnum;
    std::string address;
    std::string phone;
    double hourwage;
    double hoursworked;
public:
    Employee(void);
    Employee(int, std::string , std::string, std::string, double, double);
    double gethourwage () const;
    double gethoursworked () const;
    double printcheck () const;
    std::string getphone() const;
    std::string getname() const;
    std::string getaddress() const;
};
// end of header

// employee class.cpp
#include "Employee.h"
#include <string>
#include <iostream>

Employee::Employee(void)
{
    int empnum = 0;
    double hourwage = 0.0;
    double hoursworked = 0.0;
}
Employee::Employee(int num, std::string nme, std::string addres, std::string phon, double hourpay, double hrswrked)
{
    num = empnum;
    nme = name;
    addres = address;
    phon = phone;
    hourpay = hourwage;
    hrswrked = hoursworked;
}

double Employee::gethourwage() const
{
    return hourwage;
}
double Employee::gethoursworked() const
{
    return hoursworked;
}
double Employee::printcheck() const
{
    double pay = 0.0;
    double hrspay = hourwage;
    double hrswork = hoursworked;
    return hoursworked;

}
// end of employee.cpp
// main
#include <iostream>
#include <algorithm>
#include <numeric>
#include <vector>
#include <iterator>
#include <string>
#include "Employee.h"

using namespace std;
int main( )
{
    int num1 = 10210;
    double hourwage = 20.2;
    double hourworked = 32.3;
    string steve;
    Employee emp(num1, steve, 58s200w, 90210, hourwage, hourworked);
    cout << "" << emp.getaddress();

    system("PAUSE");
    return 0;
} // end of main

“Employee emp(num1, steve, 58s200w, 90210, hourwage, hourworked);” towards the bottom is the line I am having the issue with. I am not sure if I am entering it in the wrong order, or something else.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Answer 1

You should enter strings in double quotes:

Employee emp(num1, "steve", "58s200w", "90210", hourwage, hourworked);

Edit 1 (tried to explain the difference between const char * and std::string, as @Alex suggested)

Literal strings in the snippet above are of type const char *, which is a low-level entity inherited from the C language. const char * is a pointer to memory area which holds consecutive values of type const char.

std::string is a higher-level wrapper around C-style strings intended to provide more «user-friendly» API and solve some problems of C-style strings (e.g., dynamic allocation and automatic memory cleanup).

Because the std::string class has a constructor which takes a const char * parameter, literal strings passed to the Employee constructor are implicitly converted to std::string‘s