problem storing a string from a file

[fathi]

hello guys, i've worked with C, Java, VB and now C++ but i never knew how to deal with strings so a little bit of help will be so appreciated. it is infact a login code. here is the problem:

//displays all records
while (inStaff && !inStaff.eof() ) {

->problem if ( employee.getEmpPass() != 0 )
{ // the excutions halts here !!!

tempVarData1 = employee.getEmpPass();
tempVarData2 = employee.getEmpPriv();
tempVarData3 = employee.getEmpUserName();

if (( tempVarData1 == e_pass2 )&&(tempVarData3 == e_username))
{ cout<<"you are now logged in";
showMenu (tempVarData2);
}
else
{
cout<<"sorry incorrect password";
}
somehow i got it to run once but something was wrong with assigning the string function tempVarData3 = employee.getEmpUserName(); to the string variable

[nmadct]

What kind of message do you get when execution halts? And how do you know that it's happening right there? Also, it would help if you showed us the declarations for your variables so we know their types.

[fathi]

this is the function definition inside the class.cpp:

string empclass::getEmpUserName()
{
return e_userName;
}//end funcion get username

void empclass::setEmpUserName ( string e_userNameString )
{
//copy at most 15 characters from string to e_userUame
const char *userNameValue = e_userNameString.data();
int length = strlen ( userNameValue );
length = ( length <15 ? length : 14 );
strncpy ( e_userName, userNameValue, length );

//append null character to e_username
e_userName [length] = '\0';

}//end function set username

Due to some other errors i changed it to this:

//get username value
string empclass::getEmpUserName()
{
return e_userName;

}//end funcion get username

void empclass::setEmpUserName ( string e_userNameString )
{
e_userName = e_userNameString;
}


i declared the variables locally inside the main function like this:

int e_pass2;
int tempVarData1, tempVarData2;
string tempVarData3;
string e_username;


i declared the variables in the class as private... as following:

int e_pass;
string e_userName;
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
i know that the execution stops there bcus if i place any "cout" after that condition statement it wont display. by the way there is no error msg wat happens is the program prompts for the username and password and stops as soon as i key them in.

thank you

[Savage]

Hi,

how have you declared getEmpPass( ) function?


Savage