Need help with Delete Record function

[mjyz]

I've been trying to get my delete function to work but it doesn't. Can someone help me with this. It deletes the first record instead of the record I search for.

here are the search and delete functions

int Search(Student List[], int Size, string Target)
{
    for(int i = 0 ; i < Size ; i++)
        if (Target == List[i].LastName)
            return i;
    return -1;
}

void Delete_Record(Student List[], int&Size)
{
    Student Temp;
    int Index;
    string Target;
    cout << "Enter student Last Name: ";
    cin >> Temp.LastName;
    Index = Search(List,Size,Target);
    for (int i = Index; i < Size;i++)
    {
        List[i] = List[i+1];
    }
        Size--;
    cout << "The record was deleted.\n";
}

[giblit]

Well you have the Target string on line 5. For some reason though you have line 3 which you don't need and on line 7 you are reading into the "Temp" student instead of the the "Target" lastname. So when you call the search function on line 8 you are searching for someone who does not exist so that sets i == to -1 on line 9. You may want to put an if statement in there because -1 is less than the size so the for loop will start from -1 and go to size -1.

Basically this:

Remove line 3 and change line 7 to cin >> Target;

*edit then you may want an if statement around that for loop forgot to mention

[mjyz]

Makes sense, it worked. thank you so much !