passing variables w/o making them global

[BoscoPippa]

I'm an extreme newbie at C++ and am working on my final project for my beginner course. I have an issue, though, and I'm hoping I can get a nudge in the right direction.

The program functions via a user menu:

void menu(void)

and looks like this:
E - Enter number of trades by day................// int getTrades(void)
V - View previously entered data...................// void viewTrades(trades)
S - View a statistical summary of the data....// void statSummary(trades)
X - Exit the program

(trades[5] is the array stored in getTrades)

I'm using a switch for the menu. Since viewTrades and statSummary use data entered by the E option, how do I pass the values of the array elements to those functions without passing them to menu()? That just makes a mess.

Sorry if these are dumb questions, but I'm pretty lost here. Thanks very much in advance.

[gpraghuram]

I'm an extreme newbie at C++ and am working on my final project for my beginner course. I have an issue, though, and I'm hoping I can get a nudge in the right direction.

The program functions via a user menu:

void menu(void)

and looks like this:
E - Enter number of trades by day................// int getTrades(void)
V - View previously entered data...................// void viewTrades(trades)
S - View a statistical summary of the data....// void statSummary(trades)
X - Exit the program

(trades[5] is the array stored in getTrades)

I'm using a switch for the menu. Since viewTrades and statSummary use data entered by the E option, how do I pass the values of the array elements to those functions without passing them to menu()? That just makes a mess.

Sorry if these are dumb questions, but I'm pretty lost here. Thanks very much in advance.

Have you heard about classes in c++?
Start reading about classes and you will get an idea on how to to use it to solve your problem.

Thanks
Raghuram

[BoscoPippa]

Thanks for your response. We just barely touched on classes in the last class, but we're not supposed to use/need them for this project. Any other ideas?

Have you heard about classes in c++?
Start reading about classes and you will get an idea on how to to use it to solve your problem.

Thanks
Raghuram

[gpraghuram]

Thanks for your response. We just barely touched on classes in the last class, but we're not supposed to use/need them for this project. Any other ideas?

If u shuldnt use classes then you shuld pass the values as arguments.
Do you have good knowledge in C? then it is very easy for you.

Thanks
Raghuram

[Studlyami]

you could also call the menu function which will return a char to your main (or any other function for that matter). From your main you then can do a switch statement based on the results returned from menu.

[BoscoPippa]

Thanks. I ended up handing it in without getting it to work completely, and asked my teacher if he'd mind explaining to me how to make it work right at some point. I'm not worried about my grade, so much, but next semester I'm taking an intro to Java class and I'll need to understand this stuff by then!

[weaknessforcats]

You mean you can't:

int main()
{
Trades trades[5];
int choice;
     choice = GetMenuChoice();
     if (choice == 'V')
     {
          ViewTrades(trades);
     }
etc...
}
 

??