I get what you're saying I just don't quite understand how to execute this and where to put the thread.sleep()? If not in the constructor then where as it has to load in the code?

pbl, on 23 October 2012 - 06:59 PM, said:

That's great, thank you so much, was wondering how I was going to do that! You print all of the data in the function where I just want it to print only courses with no id numbers... how do I get it to do that? I have tried

 if(! id_num ) 

on the void print function? should look like this :S =

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Other txt file!

Sorry Jim! OK so that part of the code is working fine now... Here's the code in its entirety:

//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
#include <vcl.h>
#include <tchar.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <conio.h>

using namespace std;

const char STUDENT[] = "C:\\students.txt";
const char COURSES[] = "C:\\courses.txt";

class Student
{
public:
	Student();
	Student(char firstName[] , char secondName[] , int id , char enrld);
	~Student();
	int getIDNumber();
	char* getFirstName();
	char* getSecondName();
	char getEnrolled();
	void setIDNumber( int id );
	void setFirstName( char firstName[] );
	void setSecondName( char secondName[] );
	void setEnrolled( char enrolled );
	void print();
private:
	char first_name[ 16 ];
	char second_name[ 16 ];
	int id_number;
	char enrolled;
};

class Course
{
public:
	int course_identifier;
	char course_name[ 32 ];
	int credits;
	int id_number;
};

Student :: Student()
{

}

Student :: ~Student()
{

}

Student :: Student( char firstName[], char secondName[], int id, char enrld )
{
	strcpy( first_name , firstName );
	strcpy(second_name , secondName );
	id_number = id;
	enrolled = enrld;
}

int Student :: getIDNumber()
{
	return id_number;
}

char Student :: getEnrolled()
{
	return enrolled;
}

char* Student :: getFirstName()
{
	return first_name;
}

char* Student :: getSecondName()
{
	return second_name;
}

void Student :: setIDNumber( int id )
{
	id_number = id;
}

void Student :: setEnrolled( char enrolled )
{
	this -> enrolled = enrolled;
}

void Student :: setFirstName( char firstName[] )
{
	strcpy( first_name , firstName );
}

void Student :: setSecondName( char secondName[] )
{
	strcpy( second_name , secondName );
}

void Student :: print()
{
	if( enrolled == 'N' )
	{
		cout << "   " << second_name << ", " << first_name << ": ID "
		<< id_number << ", paid fees " << enrolled;
	}
}

bool readStudents( Student[] , int& );
void printAllStudents( Student[], int );
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
	Student students[ 1024 ];
	int nrOfStudents = 0;

	cout << "************************" << endl;
	cout << "* 159.234 Assignment 2 *" << endl;
	cout << "*   05155932 Syms C.   *" << endl;
	cout << "*       S2 2012        *" << endl;
	cout << "************************" << endl << endl;

	cout << "Students not enrolled in any paper: " << endl;

	if( !readStudents ( students , nrOfStudents ) )
		return 1;

	printAllStudents( students , nrOfStudents );

	getch();
	return 0;
}
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
bool readStudents( Student students[] , int &nrOfStudents)
{
	ifstream read;
	read.open(STUDENT);

	if (! read.is_open())
	{
		return false;
	}

	int nr = 0;

	char fName[16];
	char sName[16];
	char enrolled;
	int id;

	read >> nr;
	while (! read.eof() && nrOfStudents != nr)
	{
		read >> fName;
		read >> sName;
		read >> id;
		read >> enrolled;

		students[ nrOfStudents ] = Student( fName , sName , id , enrolled );

		nrOfStudents++;
	}

	read.close();
	return true;
}
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
void printAllStudents( Student students[] , int nrOfStudents )
{
	for (int i = 0; i < nrOfStudents; i++)
	{
		students[i].print();
	}
}
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------

The required output is supposed to be like:

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It is doing this now after I changed the above piece of code to include the if statement.

Now I just need the code to read through the courses text file and read to print this:

Quote

I think I'm on the right track here, my code feels messy but it's the first time I've had a real go at classes so if there's anything else you could recommend then that would be fantastico.

[quote name='rdhc1330' date='07 August 2012 - 05:25 PM' timestamp='1344385550' post='1680461']

void Student :: print()
{
	cout << "First Name: " << first_name << endl;
	cout << "Second Name: " << second_name << endl;
	cout << "ID: " << id_number << endl;
	cout << "Enrolled: " << enrolled << endl;

	cout << endl;
}

Has been changed to:

void Student :: print()
{
	if( enrolled == 'N' )
	{
		cout << "\t" << second_name << ", " << first_name << ": ID "
		<< id_number << ", paid fees " << enrolled;
	}
	cout << endl;
}