Place Words from String into Array

[qwerty2222]

Hello! I am trying to get only the words of a string to store into an array. For example, the string text == "cat rat Shark mouse" should cause the array newtext[4] to hold "cat, rat, Shark, mouse".

This code will not build and I cannot find the mistake I made. Thanks for any help!

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <cassert>
#include <fstream>

using namespace std;


int words(string text, string newtext[])
{
	for (int k = 0; k < text.size() -1; k++) 
	{
		int n = 0;
		if (text[k] != ' ')
		{
			for (int j = 1; j < text.size() - k - 1; j++)
			{
				if (text[k + j] == ' ')
				{
					newtext[n] = text.substr(k, j - 1); k = (k + j - 1); n + 1; break;
				}
				j++;
			}

		}
	}
}

int main()
{
	string text;
	string newtext[500];
	getline(cin, text);
	words(text, newtext);
	cout << newtext;
	
}

[Thomas1965]

error C4716: 'words' : must return a value

Either you return a value or change words() to void.

[qwerty2222]

Whoops! Changed it to void. thanks man! How do you get it to show what the error was? Mine just says there were build errors. (microsoft visual studios c++)

[Thomas1965]

It depend what version of Visual Studio you use.
Have a look for View->ErrorList or View-OtherWindows->ErrorList