Help with Class Accessors.

[Shaikh Omar]

My current code is

#ifndef SELLER_H
#define SELLER_H

//*****************************************************************
// FILE:      Seller.h
// AUTHOR:    Shaikh Omar
// LOGON ID:  z1548925
// DUE DATE:  02/12/2012
//
// PURPOSE:   Contains the declaration for the Seller class.
//*****************************************************************

class Seller
      {
      private:
                char name[30];
                double salesTotal;

      public:
                Seller(); //default contructor
                Seller(char* newName, double newSalesTotal); //constructor for seller class

                char getName(); //returns seller's name
                double getSalesTotal(); //returns seller's sales total
                void setSalesTotal(double newSalesTotal); //set the seller's sales total
                void print(); //prints the saller's name and sales total

      };

#endif 

#include "Seller.h"
#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>

using std::cout;
using std::string;
using namespace std;

Seller::Seller() //default contructor
        {
        *name = '\0';
        salesTotal = 0;
        }

Seller::Seller(char* newName, double newSalesTotal) //initializes the data members of the Selle$
        {
		strcpy (name, newName);	   
		salesTotal = newSalesTotal;	   
        }

char Seller::getName()
        {
        return* name;
        }

double Seller::getSalesTotal()
        {
        return salesTotal;
        }

void Seller::setSalesTotal(double newSalesTotal)
        {
        salesTotal = newSalesTotal;
        }

void Seller::print()
        { 
		
        cout <<left << setw(30) << name; 
		
		cout << right << setw (9) << salesTotal;
        }

#include <iostream>
#include "Seller.h"

using std::cout;
using std::endl;

int main()
      {
      // Test default constructor
      Seller seller1;

      // Test alternate constructor
      Seller seller2("Jones, Martin", 1234.56);

      // Test print() method and whether constructors
      // properly initialized objects
      cout << "Printing seller1\n\n";
      seller1.print();
      cout << endl << endl;

      cout << "Printing seller2\n\n";
      seller2.print();
      cout << endl << endl;

      // Test accessor methods
      cout << seller2.getName() << endl;
      cout << seller2.getSalesTotal() << endl;

      seller2.setSalesTotal(6543.21);
      cout << seller2.getSalesTotal() << endl;

      return 0;
      }

I've gotten the program to work (for the most part) except I run into a problem with cout << seller2.getName() << endl;. When I try to get an output it only displays a J instead of the whole name. Any tips on how I could fix this?

[vlad from moscow]

Member function getName shall be declared as

const char * getName() const; //returns seller's name
and defined as

const char * Seller::getName() const
{
        return name;
}

[Shaikh Omar]

Thank you very much. I didn't realized that I needed to put in the const char* instead of just char.