struct in another .cpp file

[jLNv0pDG]

So, I have a big list of struct objects that I don't want to put in main.cpp but I want to be able to use them in it.

Is there an easy way of creating all these structure in struct.cpp, for example, and then including struct.cpp in main.cpp?

[Bazzy]

You need to declare the struct in a header file ( and if it has some complex functions define them in a separate source file )
http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/articles/10627/

[jLNv0pDG]

Thanks for the link, I think I understand this a little better now but I have come across a problem and I can't see why this doesn't work:

//fruit.h
struct fruit {
string name;
}

//main.cpp
#include <string>
#include "fruit.h"

int main()
{ ... }

I keep getting "syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'name'". Even putting #include<string> in the fruit.h makes no difference. What am I doing wrong?

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EDIT: I realise that should have been std::string

[moorecm]

Missing a semicolon on line 4 of fruit.h.

[jLNv0pDG]

Has C++ given anyone else a passionate hate for the semi-colon? :)

[tummychow]

Heavens no!
After a while you just get accustomed to where you should put the semicolons.
It is annoying until you remember.
(And it's a fashionable, useful punctuation mark but nobody cares about that.)

[firedraco]

I forget to put ';' after my classes/structs every so often too...<_<;