Question about setting string

[tNK]

Under the setName string function. Why is it that if I put test = name instead of name = test It would show nothing?

  #include <iostream>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

class TestClass{
    public:
    string setName (string test)
    {
        name = test;
        return name;
    }

    private:
    string name;
};
int main(){

    TestClass Object;
    cout << Object.setName("test");
    return 0;

}

[Peter87]

Note that = is not an equality operator like you're used to from math. In C++ = is the assignment operator. It assigns the value on the right to the variable on the left.

name = test; // Assigns the value of test to the variable name. 

[tNK]

Oh thank you so much. So I was passing the value into test and which left the name variable with no value in it then it got assigned to test thus returning nothing.