Thanks again, Jim. My project is up and running!!!

As for Warnings.. okay.. I don't want to be responsible for your head exploding but..

Professor told us the first day of class to ignore them. I blew him off until I realized he was making us use so many deprecated/unsafe functions. I was throwing Warnings all over the place in all my programs when I followed his rules. I stopped paying attention to them.

Now I realize they are a valuable tool. I thought something like an accidental 1 instead of an i to print an int would throw an error. I was wrong.

I'm taking a month off after I graduate, and I'm going to spend it trying to learn how to do things properly.

As of this very minute.. I have logged 80 (awake) hours in 6 days working on the program.

Thank you, Jim, and Baav, and Jon.K for your help. I couldn't have done it without you.
It was a trial by fire, for sure LOL.

It's the list function that's causing the error.. I just don't understand why, since I called it the same way I called all the other elements of the customer array..

synlight, on 05 April 2013 - 08:47 AM, said:

I think I got it as small as possible.. EDIT!! I had to add the list function that is causing the violation! Sorry!!!!!

# include <cstdio>
# include <cstring>
# include <cstdlib> 
# include <windows.h>
# include <cctype>
using namespace::std;

struct dueDate
	{
		int month;
		int day;
		int year;

		//constructor
		dueDate(): month(0), day(0), year(0) {}
	};

struct record
	{
		int custID;
		char name[28];
		char state[3];
		char discCode;
		double balanceDue;
		dueDate date;
	};

	//PROTOTYPES
	
void getString(const char *prompt, char *buffer, int);
void getDate(struct record *customer, int);
bool validDate(char *testDate, struct record *customer, int);
void list(struct record *customer);


int main()
{
	record customer[50];
	int pos = 0;
	getDate(customer, pos);
	
	
	//this causes the Access Reading Vio
	printf("%i%i%i", customer[pos].date.month, customer[pos].date.day, customer[pos].date.year);

        list(customer);
		
}//END MAIN

/***********************************************
* Gets date as string*
************************************************/
void getDate(record customer[], int pos)
{
	const int length = 40;
	char testDate[length];
	bool valid = false;

	while(!valid)
	{
		getString("Please enter the date as XX/XX/XXXX:", testDate, length); 
		valid = validDate(testDate, customer, pos);
	}
}//END GETDATE


/***********************************************
* Check valid date*
************************************************/
bool validDate(char testDate[], record customer[], int pos)
{
	int month = 0;
	int day = 0;
	int year = 0;
	char copy[12];
	char tMonth[3];
	char tDay[3];
	char tYear[5];
	bool valid = false;
//not all variables are used in this test program - they are used in the actual program

	char* token;

	//GET MONTH
	token = strtok(testDate,"/");
	strcpy(tMonth, token);
	month = atoi(tMonth);

	//GET DAY
	token = strtok(NULL, "/");
	strcpy(tDay, token);
	day = atoi(tDay);

	//GET YEAR
	token = strtok(NULL, "/");
	strcpy(tYear, token);
	year = atoi(tYear);

	int numDays = 0;
	bool monthFlag = false;
	bool dayFlag = false;
	bool yearFlag = false;



	customer[pos].date.month = month;
	customer[pos].date.day = day;
	customer[pos].date.year = year;

	printf("%i%i%i", customer[pos].date.month, customer[pos].date.day, customer[pos].date.year);

	//I removed all the testing.. the function will return true for testing purposes.
	
	return true;
}

/*********************************
* Gets and returns a String  *
*********************************/
void getString(const char prompt[], char buffer[], int max)
{
	printf("\n%s",prompt);
	fgets(buffer,max,stdin);
	char* p = strchr( buffer, '\n');
	if( p != NULL ) 
		*p = 0; 
	else while(fgetc(stdin) != '\n');
}//END GETSTRING

void list(record customer[])
{
	printf("Due Date\n");

		printf("%18s%i\%i\%1\n", customer[0].date.month, customer[0].date.day, customer[0].date.year);
	
	printf("\n\n");

}

jimblumberg, on 05 April 2013 - 08:46 AM, said:

Okay.. give me 5 minutes. Thank you, Jim.

Thank you, Jim. I read the article to linked.

My project is fully tested and running with the exception of the dueDate (struct inside struct). When I print my struct array, I get an Access Reading Violation error on the dueDate (all other array elements print fine)..

So. I populate the date by passing the record array it to a getDate function.

I then pass it to a validDate function, which populates it. I am able to print the correct date inside the validDate function, with no Access Violations.

I'm going to try to post relevant code..

Declared above main:

struct dueDate
	{
		int month;
		int day;
		int year;

		//constructor
		dueDate(): month(0), day(0), year(0) {}
	};

struct record
	{
		int custID;
		char name[28];
		char state[3];
		char discCode;
		double balanceDue;
		dueDate date;
	};

call to getDate:

getDate(customer, pos);

getDate function

void getDate(record customer[], int pos)
{
	const int length = 40;
	char testDate[length];
	bool valid = false;

	while(!valid)
	{
		getString("Please enter the date as XX/XX/XXXX:", testDate, length); 
		valid = validDate(testDate, customer, pos);
	}

}//END GETDATE

validDate function(abbreviated to remove testing since that is working well and is very long)

bool validDate(char testDate[], record customer[], int pos)
{
	int month = 0;
	int day = 0;
	int year = 0;
	char copy[12];
	char tMonth[3];
	char tDay[3];
	char tYear[5];
	bool valid = false;


	char* token;

	//GET MONTH
	token = strtok(testDate,"/");
	strcpy(tMonth, token);
	month = atoi(tMonth);

	//GET DAY
	token = strtok(NULL, "/");
	strcpy(tDay, token);
	day = atoi(tDay);

	//GET YEAR
	token = strtok(NULL, "/");
	strcpy(tYear, token);
	year = atoi(tYear);

	int numDays = 0;
	bool monthFlag = false;
	bool dayFlag = false;
	bool yearFlag = false;



	

	if(monthFlag == true && dayFlag == true && yearFlag == true)
		valid== true;

	customer[pos].date.month = month;
	customer[pos].date.day = day;
	customer[pos].date.year = year;



	//THIS CODE PRINTS THE PROPER INTEGERS, and prints mem addresses when I use & customer[pos].date.month, etc
        //BUT when I use the same exact line of code in main, I get a Access Reading Violation runtime error.

         printf("%i%i%i", customer[pos].date.month, customer[pos].date.day, customer[pos].date.year);

	return valid;
}

Is this happening because I am passing the array to this function from another function?