[livefromyadkin]

Hello once again, I'm having problems understand overloading functions and really functions in general. But this lab I have been working on is throwing me off completely and I know you guys will know the answer. I have to write a program that computes and displays the charges for a patient's hospital stay. First it ask if the patient was admitted as an in-patient or and out-patient. The program should use two overloaded functions to calculate the total charges. One of the functions should accept arguments for the in-patient data, while the other functions accepts arguments for out-patients and both should return the total charges. Here is my code so far...

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

	double addcharges(int, double);
	double addcharges(double);

int main()
{
	int inout, days;
	double charges, rate, medcharges;


	cout<<"***********************************************\n";
	cout<<"*   Press the either number and press enter   *\n";
	cout<<"*   1. In-patient			2. Out-patient   *\n";
	cout<<"***********************************************\n";
	cin>>inout;
	if ( inout < 1 || inout > 2)
	{
		cout<<"You did not input a 1 or a 2. Reenter number: \n";
		cin>>inout;
	}
	
	switch(inout)
	{
	case 1:
		{
			cout<<"Enter the number of days spent in the hospital. \n";
			cin>>days;

			cout<<"Enter the daily rate. \n";
			cin>>rate;

			cout<<"Enter charges for hospital services. \n";
			cin>>charges;

			cout<<"Enter hospital medication charges. \n";
			cin>>medcharges;


			cout<<"Total hospital charges.................."<<addcharges(rate, days, charges, medcharges)<<endl;
		}
	case 2:
		{
			cout<<"Enter charges for hospital services. \n";
			cin>>charges;

			cout<<"Enter hospital medication charges. \n";
			cin>>medcharges;

			cout<<"Total hospital charges.................."<<addcharges(charges, medcharges)<<endl;
		}

	
return 0;
}

	double addcharges (double rate, int days, double charges, double medcharges)
	{
		return (rate * days) + charges + medcharges;
	}

	double addcharges (double charges, double medcharges)
	{
		return charges + medcharges;
	}


}

The errors are...

error C2661: 'addcharges' : no overloaded function takes 4 parameters
error C2601: 'addcharges' : local function definitions are illegal
error C2601: 'addcharges' : local function definitions are illegal

any help is greatly appreciated!

[dorknexus]

this error

Quote

error C2661: 'addcharges' : no overloaded function takes 4 parameters

is coming up because of this piece of code

double addcharges (double rate, int days, double charges, double medcharges)
	{
		return (rate * days) + charges + medcharges;
	}

at the top of this source file you have two prototypes for the function addcharges. neither of those prototypes takes 4 parameters,

	double addcharges(int, double);
	double addcharges(double);

however you define the function to take 4 parameters later in the program. also,

these errors:

Quote

error C2601: 'addcharges' : local function definitions are illegal
error C2601: 'addcharges' : local function definitions are illegal

are because you are defining a function within another function, main no function can contain the definition of another function, therefore you must either define these before or after main, not within.

[BitByte]

These:

double addcharges(int, double);
double addcharges(double);

and these:

double addcharges (double rate, int days, double charges, double medcharges)
double addcharges (double charges, double medcharges)

don't match, you must have the same amount of parameters for each one. The fist one you have an int and a double and the function has a double, an int, a double and another double. Match them up and all should work well. And by the way, you are missing a } around the main function.

[livefromyadkin]

Ok, I changed

 	double addcharges(int, double, double, double);
	double addcharges(double, double);

and I got no errors. Then trying to compile it I got 2 fatal errors.

unresolved external symbol "double __cdecl addcharges(int,double,double,double)" ([email protected]@YANHN[email protected])

: fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
Error executing link.exe.

which obviously has to do with the addcharges(int, double, double, double)... I'm stumped!

p.s I fix the brace also...thanks!

This post has been edited by livefromyadkin: 26 October 2006 - 10:07 AM

[BitByte]

They should look like this:

double addcharges(double, int, double, double);
	double addcharges(double, double);


	double addcharges (double rate, int days, double charges, double medcharges)
	{
		return (rate * days) + charges + medcharges;
	}

	double addcharges (double charges, double medcharges)
	{
		return charges + medcharges;
	}

It works on microsoft VC++ express and codeblocks

[livefromyadkin]

ok now I got it! Thank you SO MUCH for your help!!!

[BitByte]

No problem, glad you got it