Pointer with a struct

[Octoballa]

So, I need to reference the struct of student info, but Im not allowed to use any parameters on the readStudent function. Any suggestions?

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

void readStudent( );

struct Student {
	string firstName;
	string lastName;
	string aNumber;
	int courses;
	double gpa;
};

struct Course {
	int courseNumber;
	string courseName;
	int creditHours;
	char grade;
};

int main ( ) {
	readStudent();

	cout << (*studenta).firstName;

system ("pause");
return 0;
}

void readStudent( ) {
	Student student1;
	Student *studenta = new Student;
	studenta = &student1;
	cout << "What is your first name?";
	cin >> (*studenta).firstName;
	cout << "What is your last name?";
	cin >> (*studenta).lastName;
	cout << "What is your A number?";
	cin >> (*studenta).aNumber;
	cout << "How many classes are you taking?";
	cin >> (*studenta).courses;
}

[jim80y]

Are you allowed to return anything from readStudent?

[drew887]

you could try making student1 a global variable.

[ResidentBiscuit]

What are you asking? You need to access struct Student? You're already doing that.

FYI, you have a memory leak.

[chipp]

studenta has different scope and not on main()'s variable scope