Implicit Conversion -

[thav]

I'm taking an intro class right now , I'm not having any fun so far. I keep getting implicit conversion. I tried everything from .toString and declaring the array as a string which gives me problems later down when using a foreach statement later on. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

I created an Array.

Contact[] Contacts = new Contact[1];

and I am getting string input from users, using the Console.ReadLine.

Then I created an object.

Contact objContact = new Contact(firstName, lastName, phone, email);

that has those properties from the input.

then I want to add those input into my Contact array.

for (int i = 0; i < Contacts.Length; i++)
{
Contacts[i] = objContact.getFirstName(); objContact.getLastName();
objContact.getPhone(); objContact.getEmail();
}

I get error:
Cannot implicitly convert type 'string' to 'program3.Contact'

what am I doing wrong?

[AdrianH]

I'm taking an intro class right now , I'm not having any fun so far. I keep getting implicit conversion. I tried everything from .toString and declaring the array as a string which gives me problems later down when using a foreach statement later on. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

I created an Array.

Contact[] Contacts = new Contact[1];

You are programming as you would in Java. This is C/C++. Try either: Contract* Contrats[] = { new Contract() }; or Contract* Contracts = new Contract[1];

and I am getting string input from users, using the Console.ReadLine.

Lookup: istream& getline( istream& is, string& s, char delimiter = '\n' ); located in strings.

Then I created an object.

Contact objContact = new Contact(firstName, lastName, phone, email);

that has those properties from the input.

then I want to add those input into my Contact array.

for (int i = 0; i < Contacts.Length; i++)
{
Contacts[i] = objContact.getFirstName(); objContact.getLastName();
objContact.getPhone(); objContact.getEmail();
}

I get error:

What? Only one? ;)

Cannot implicitly convert type 'string' to 'program3.Contact'

what am I doing wrong?

Pretty much everything. ;)

In C and C++ there is no length attribute. To get the size of an raw array in C/C++, that is declared on the stack or in a class, you can use this trick: int const size = sizeof(Contacts)/sizeof(Contacts[0]);

However, if you try and allocated an array like this: Contact * Contacts = new Contact[10];, that trick will not work. The best thing to do is use a vector.

If you posted this in error, then please state and I'll move this over to the Java forum.

Hope this helps.


Adrian