Can arrarys in a class store data from another class?

[DragonKnight]

Hi guys,

I have set up a class where the user enters a team name and it will display that name and also the starting points for that team (starting points are 0)

The problem i'm having is, I want to create another class which acts as a manager class for the team class and I was wondering is it possible to set up an array in the manager class which can grab and contain data which is stored in the first class?

void set_team1_name (const string &),set_team2_name (const string &),set_team3_name (const string &),set_team4_name (const string &);
};

void cteams::set_team1_name (const string &team1)
{
f_team1 = team1;
}


class cleague
{




};

int main()
{
cteams teamscore (0);
cteams teams (0);

string team1;
string team2;
cout << "Enter Team 1 here: " << endl;
getline (cin, team1);



these are small snippets of the code. any help most appreciated thanks

[Bazzy]

You can create an array, a vector or whatever container with elements of the type of the 1^st class as member of the second
eg:

class A
{
    public:
        A ( ); // notice: you must have a constructor which takes no arguments to create an array
};

class B
{
    A array[ nuber_of_elements ]; // notice: arrays have fixed size, while other containers can be resized
};

[DragonKnight]

I'm still a little confused, could you possible elaborate a tiny bit more on this?

So say in my case I had

class cteams
{
public
void set_team1_name (const string &);
};

and in class cleague
{
set_team1_name [team1,team2,team3,team4];
};

would that work out correct? thanks for your help

[Bazzy]

class cteams
{
   public:
      void set_team_name (const string &); // single team => no '1' in the function name
};

cleague
{
   private:
      cteams teams[4]; // declare array
   public:
      set_team1_name(const string &name)
      {
          teams[0].set_team_name ( name ); // call function for the 1st element of the array
      }

      // Do the same for the others, notice that the nth array element index is n-1
};

[DragonKnight]

I'm a little confused with having a constructor taking no arguments?

when i run my code it asks me to enter team names which I do and then they get stored in the cteams class, ideally i would like to also store them in the cleague class as well.

And we meet again Bazzy, thanks so much for your help.

[DragonKnight]

Excellent I'm with you now, thanks for your help buddy!!

[DragonKnight]

right so instead of having void set_team1_name etc in class cteams I would have void set_team_name in class cteams and then void set_team1_name in the manager class?

why can i not keep set_team1_name in the original class?

[DragonKnight]

Warning 2 warning C4183: 'set_team1_name': missing return type; assumed to be a member function returning 'int' c:\users\joe mcdermott\desktop\programing resit work\amateur football league\amateur football league\amateur football league.cpp 87 Amateur Football League


Error 1 error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int c:\users\joe mcdermott\desktop\programing resit work\amateur football league\amateur football league\amateur football league.cpp 85 Amateur Football League


these are the errors im getting? highly confused now LOL

[Bazzy]

Having set_team1_name in the class which represents just one team makes no sense.
The errors are there because I forgot 'void' before the function name in the example:

void set_team1_name(const string &name)
    // etc.