Question

I am trying to get this program to start running but currently I just get errors. I am not sure how to get this to work. If I change the class SavingsAccount to public it should be okay, but I am required to keep it as is.

The problem is in the main function.

#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

class SavingsAccount
{
    int accountType;
    string ownerName;
    long ssn;
    double accountClosurePenaltyPercent, accountBalance;
    void Information();
    inline double AccountClosureLoss()
    {
        return (accountBalance * accountClosurePenaltyPercent);
    }
    void OutputInformation();

};

void SavingsAccount::Information()
{
    cout << "Enter Account Type (1 for Checking or 2 for Savings): ";
    cin >> accountType;
    cout << "Enter owner name: ";
    getline(cin, ownerName);
    cout << "Enter the Social Security Number: ";
    cin >> ssn;
    cout << "Enter the percent penalty for closing account(decimal form): ";
    cin >> accountClosurePenaltyPercent;
    cout << "Enter the account balance: ";
    cin >> accountBalance;
}

void SavingsAccount::OutputInformation()
{
    cout << "Account Type: " << endl;
    cout << "Name: " << ownerName << endl;
    cout << "SSN: " << ssn << endl;
    cout << "Account Closure Penaly %: " << accountClosurePenaltyPercent << endl;
    cout << "Account Balance: " << accountBalance;
}

int main(void)
{
    SavingsAccount.Information(); 
    SavingsAccount.AccountClosureLoss();
    SavingsAccount.OutputInformation();
    return 0;
}

What I tried so far.

int main(void)
    {
        SavingsAccount John;
        John.Information(); 
        John.AccountClosureLoss();
        John.OutputInformation();
        return 0;
    }

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Well by default member functions are private, so you can always add them into public as follows:

class SavingsAccount
{
    private:
    int accountType;
    string ownerName;
    long ssn;
public:
    double accountClosurePenaltyPercent, accountBalance;
    void Information();
    inline double AccountClosureLoss()
    {
        return (accountBalance * accountClosurePenaltyPercent);
    }
    void OutputInformation();
};

You will now be able to call them from the main.