Question

This appears to be a simple problem but I haven’t had any luck searching for any answers so here goes. I have a struct Person with char* name and int age. I have the following method:

void Person_messup(struct Person &who) {
    who.name="asdfasdf";
    who.age = 9001;
}

compiling this code gives me the following error:

error: expected ; , or ) before & token

I can implement the above just fine using pointers or even passing an object struct but I’m having trouble with this particular implementation. Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

There are no references in c – pass the struct as a pointer.

void Person_messup(Person *who) {
    who->name="asdfasdf"; // or really strcpy!
    who->age = 9001;
}

(or use c++ !)