Question

I’m trying to create a member function that allows an user to set member array variables.

I’ve been looking everywhere but I can’t find the problem in my code,

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

class Employee
{
   protected:
      string name;
      char ssn[11];
      char id[5];
      char hired[8];
   public:
      Employee(char ssn, char id, char hired);     //Constructor
      Employee(string name);
      ~Employee();      //Destructor
      void setName(string n) { n = name; }
      void setSSN(char i) { ssn = i; }

};

int main()
{
return 0;
}

Answer 1

Let’s have a look at your setSSN function:

void setSSN(char i) { ssn = i; }

SNN, which most likely means social security number, doesn’t consist of just one digit but 11, right? Then why would setSSN take as input only one character (digit) by (char i)? So setSSN function should rather take a string of characters containing SSN of the employee and that string should be of the same flavor as the ssn member variable of your Employee class in order to let you assign one string variable by another in the body of setSSN function. If you are already familiar with the string class of the C++ standard library, you should probably use that class for all your string storage and manipulation.