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Sekacorn
Sekacorn

Reputation: 29

I having a error with data structures

I am having a error from the compiler telling me that "student" "does not refer to a value" it was to my understanding student.test refers to a value and that value has already be initialized to the variable. I need help

int main() {
ifstream dataIn;
ofstream dataOut;


struct student{
    string  lastName=" ";
    string firstName=" ";
    int test1=0;
    int test2=0;
    int test3=0;
    int test4=0;
    int test5=0;
   };
char grade=' ';
int total=0;
int average =0;
average=averageScore(student.test1, student.test2, student.test3,  student.test4,student.test5,student.average, student.total);

Upvotes: 0

Views: 53

Answers (1)

Amnon Shochot
Amnon Shochot

Reputation: 9376

The problem is that struct student is a type definition and not a variable declaration.

Therefore, in order to access the fields you should declare a variable of this type, and use the variable and not the class i.e.:

student st;
char grade=' ';
int total=0;
int average =0;
average=averageScore(st.test1, st.test2, st.test3,  st.test4,st.test5,st.average, st.total);

(And also, as Mr. Yellow mentioned the average field is not defined for struct student)

Upvotes: 2

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