Question

I have a code in which I use a pointer to a class that I made. As an example lets say I have a Person method, and each Person had a name. Now lets say I use a pointer for a person like

Person& * person_;

Now lets say I’m trying to get the name of the person using the pointer I have. If I do something as simple as

person_.getName()

It will return an error saying that it’s a non-class type.

My question is: if all I have is the pointer to work with, how do I use the methods of the class it’s pointing to?

Answer 1

You use the pointer notation:

person_->getName()

-> is what you want.