Changing the using to class inheritance

[Mathavan]

Can anyone teach and guide me how to change the "using" to a class inheritance format

  class Movie
{
    public:
        string name, day, time1, time2, time3;
};

using MOVIE = Movie[MAXMOVIES];

[seeplus]

I'm not sure I'm understanding the question. MOVIE is of type array of Movie. What's to inherit?

[Mathavan]

Sorry. I dont have much knowledge about this. Now I am clear that it is a array, but can you teach me a alternative way on replacing the using with something else. I mean I dont want to use using in my code. Can you let me know a alternative way on doing this code.

[jonnin]

maybe you want this:
movie MOVIE[MAXMOVIES];
but it is a global variable where you have it -- this really belongs down inside main or something.

slightly better is to use vector but it may be going beyond what you have studied so far
std::vector<movie> MOVIE(MAXMOVIES); //need #include<vector>

[seeplus]

std::vector<Movie> movies;

[Mathavan]

This is my code guys. I tried with the way you guys tought me but its giving some error. Can you guys let me know a way?

using MOVIE = Movie[MAXMOVIES];

int ReadFile(MOVIE& movies, int& movieCount)
{
    string file_name = "Movies.txt";  // <--- Put File name here.
    int i;
    ifstream movies_file("Movies.txt");

    if (!movies_file){
        cout << "\n File " << "\"" << file_name << "\"" << " did not open." << endl;
    }

    while (getline(movies_file, movies[i].name, '|')){
        getline(movies_file, movies[i].day, '|');
        getline(movies_file, movies[i].time1, '|');
        getline(movies_file, movies[i].time2, '|');
        getline(movies_file, movies[i].time3);
        movies_file.clear();

        i++;
    }

    movieCount = i;

    return 0;
}

update_movie()
{
    fstream movie, temp;
    int lines, movieCount{}, readStatus{};
    char selection_movie1, name [25], time1[25], time2[25], time3[25];
    movie.open("Movies.txt",ios::in);
    temp.open("temp.txt",ios::out);

    MOVIE movies;
    if (readStatus = ReadFile(movies, movieCount))
        return readStatus;
    showmovielist(movies, movieCount);

    cin.ignore();
    cout << endl;
    cout << "Enter the serial number of the movie that you want to update [1,2,3...]: ";
    cin >> selection_movie1;

    char count = '0';
    string line;

    ifstream file("Movies.txt");
    while (!file.eof())
    {
        getline(file, line);
        count++;
    }

    lines = count - 50 ;

    while((selection_movie1 <= '0') || (selection_movie1 > count))
    {
        cout << endl;
        cout << "Sorry! You have entered a wrong selection. Please try again." << endl << endl;
        cout << "Please select a movie: ";
        cin.ignore(std::numeric_limits <std::streamsize>::max(), '\n');
        cin >> selection_movie1;
    }

    selection_movie = (selection_movie1 - 48);

    cout << endl;

    int i = 0;
    while(i++ , i <= count)
    {
        movie.getline(name,25,'|');
        movie.getline(time1,25,'|');
        movie.getline(time2,25,'|');
        movie.getline(time3,25);

        if (i == selection_movie)
        {
            int time[3] = {}, x = 0;
            cout << " Enter the time for First show  (HHMM): ";
            cin >> time[0];
            time_checking(time, x);
            i = 1;

            cout << " \nEnter the time for Second show (HHMM): ";
            cin >> time[1];
            time_checking(time, x);
            i = 2;

            cout << "\n Enter the time for Third show  (HHMM): ";
            cin >> time[2];
            time_checking(time, x);
            temp << name << '|' << time[0] << '|' << time[1] << '|' << time[2] << '\n';
        }

        else
        {
            temp << name << '|' << time1 << '|' << time2 << '|' << time3 << '\n';
        }

    }
    temp.close();
    movie.close();

    movie.open("Movies.txt",ios::out);
    temp.open("temp.txt",ios::in);

    int y = 0;
    do
    {
        temp.getline(name,25,'|');
        temp.getline(time1,25,'|');
        temp.getline(time2,25,'|');
        temp.getline(time3,25);
        movie << name << '|' << time1 << '|' << time2 << '|' << time3 << '\n';
        y = y + 1;
    }while (y <= lines);

    temp.close();
    movie.close();

    cout << "\n You have done editing the showtime manager!!! \n";
    remove("temp.txt");
}

[seeplus]

What error? It's also useful if you provide a complete program that can just be compiled without having to work out what #includes are needed, the main() function etc.

[Mathavan]

My code is quite long, so I provide the link to my google docs. You can just copy the whole code from there. Thank you for your help

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dE7UYO7UOjFjcdBQGmB4F33b7dxDyqgLNO5Y6_xKJD8/edit?usp=sharing

[AbstractionAnon]

I did not download your code, but I did take a glance at it.

One thing you can not do is call main() recursively.

 if (reuse_response == 'y' ){
        char seat_row = 0,seat_column = 0,response = 0,seat_type = 0,MTRS_response = 0 ;
        system("CLS");
        main();           // <- NOT ALLOWED
    }

Edit: Have you even tried to compile this? I get lots of errors when I do.
I would concentrate on fixing the errors before worrying about eliminating the using.

#include <string>         // <- Missing 

Many of your functions are missing a return type specifier. In C, the compiler will assume int, but in C++ the return type specifier is required.

Don't use goto. Goto's lead to spaghetti code which is hard to follow.

Line 741: You have a \ in front of the WELCOME.

You should break your program up into one class declaration per .h file and one class implementation per .cpp file and one .cpp file for main.