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Function Placement and '}' Token Error.

cplusone (27)
Hello! I am still learning the basics of C++ and was trying to write this functions that returns the name of the month corresponding with the number the user inputs (1-12). However I keep getting these two errors.

C:\CPP_Programs\Minigame\ReturnNameOfMonth\main.cpp: In function 'int main()':
C:\CPP_Programs\Minigame\ReturnNameOfMonth\main.cpp:13: error: a function-definition is not allowed here before '{' token
C:\CPP_Programs\Minigame\ReturnNameOfMonth\main.cpp:50: error: expected '}' at end of input
I understand that this code isn't fully finished (as I don't ask the user to cin anything). However, with this problem fixed, it shouldn't be too hard to implement.

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 #include <cstdio>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;


int main()
{
// int2month() - return the name of the month
   const char* int2month(int nMonth)

   {

       switch(nMonth)
       {
           case 1: pszReturnValue = "January";
           break;
           case 2: pszReturnValue = "February";
           break;
           case 3: pszReturnValue = "March";
           break;
           case 4: pszReturnValue = "April";
           break;
           case 5: pszReturnValue = "May";
           break;
           case 6: pszReturnValue = "June";
           break;
           case 7: pszReturnValue = "July";
           break;
           case 8: pszReturnValue = "August";
           break;
           case 9: pszReturnValue = "September";
           break;
           case 10: pszReturnValue = "October";
           break;
           case 11: pszReturnValue = "November";
           break;
           case 12: pszReturnValue = "December";
           break;
           default: pszReturnValue = "invalid";
       }
       return pszReturnValue;
       }
       system("PAUSE");
       return 0;
   }


}


Thank you all in advance for helping!
TwilightSpectre (1392)
Your problem is that you are defining the function within main. You should rather have it outside, and cal it from main. For example:
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#include <iostream>

const char* int2month(int month) {
     // get the month...
     return pszReturnValue;
}

int main() {
    int month;
    std::cout << "Enter a number from 1-12: ";
    std::cin >> month;

    std::cout << "The corresponding month is " << int2month(month) << "\n";
    return 0;
}
cplusone (27)
Thank you very much! The function worked perfectly!
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