global arrays

[NavyVetSafIn]

I originally had my arrays in my function so i was losing all the data from the arrays moving on to the next function leaving me stuck for days. after staying up all night, I realize I need to create my arrays in the Main so i don't lose them once I do work with them in the function but once I initiated them in the Main and passed them through the parameters, my program freaked out and keeps breaking! can someone tell me what I am doing wrong here? thank you


#include<iostream>
#include<string>
#include<fstream>
#include<cstdlib>
#include<iomanip>
#include<sstream>
using namespace std;


void getData(int arr[][8],string name[50], int length);


int main() {

int arr[50][8];
arr[0][7];
string name[50];
getData({},{},{});

system("pause");
}

void getData(int arr[][8],string name[50], int length) {

ifstream fin;
fin.open("empdata2.txt");
int i;
fin >> i;

if (fin.fail()) {
cout << " Your file was unable to open.\n\n";
exit(1);
}


string name;
int arr;
int total = 0;

for (int row = 0; row < i; ++row) {
fin >> name[row];
cout << name[row] << " ";

total = 0;

for (int day = 0; day < 7; day++) {
fin >> arr[row][day]; //where the break keeps happening
total += arr[row][day];


cout << setw(3) << arr[row][day];

}

cout << setw(3) << total << endl;
cout << endl;

}
fin.close();

}

[Thomas1965]

Instead of getData({},{},{});
you should pass the arrays in your main to the functions.
getData(arr, name, 50);

[NavyVetSafIn]

Thank you!

[jlb]

Please don't create multiple topics for the same problem.

http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/beginner/201893/

[NavyVetSafIn]

sorry. I just got on this site this last week. still getting the navigation down. I thought when i hit that that was resolved (even though it wasn't) that it was deleted. my mistake.