Help Void Skip Blanks ()

[16800960]

I am stuck with this i need to declare the clrscr,pause and skip blanks functions like my code shows below

 
# include <iostream>
 
using namespace std;
void clrscr (); //Prototype
void pause (); //prototype
void skipBlanks (); // prototype
int main ()
 
{
cout << "Calling function Clear Screen\n";
clrscr();
 
cout << "Calling function pause\n";;
pause();
}
 
  char ch;
  while(ch=cin.peek()==' ' || ch=='\t' 
        || ch=='\n' || ch=='\r') cin.get();} 
 
  string title, id; 
  double price; 
  {
  cout << "Enter your student ID: "; 
  cin >> id; 
  cout << "Enter a book title: ";
  cin >> title;
 
system ("pause");}
 
 

here are the errors i am getting in dev C++

16 expected constructor, destructor, or type conversion before '(' token
16 expected `,' or `;' before '(' token
18 expected unqualified-id before "while"
18 expected `,' or `;' before "while"
19 expected declaration before '}' token


Thanks

Banfa by following your advice and changing the placement of the closing brace to after price the following occurs

23 expected declaration before '}' token


the code following was written by lecturer unedited i may have misplaced it in the program though

[Banfa]

Line 16 is a brace } and it ends the function main.

The rest of the code following line 16 is not in a function which is not allowed in C++

[16800960]

Have fixed the pause and CLS code now need the code to

 
void displayMenu (){
   cout << "MAIN MENU\n";  stringchoices []=
{cout << " 0. Exit "; cout <<  " 1. Enter Book "; cout << " 2. Find Book\n ";
cout << "3. List All";    "4. Delete Book";   "5. Update Book\n";}
 
 

I want to make the cout statement be called when voidDisplay menu () ,DisplayMenu () is used

[Banfa]

Instead of

cout << "MAIN MENU\n";

do this

cout << "MAIN MENU" << endl;

endl (end line) is more portable.

Just get rid of stringchoices and use cout to display your menu.

[16800960]

Thanks BanFa i realise i should use endl though /n flushes th eline decreasing the chance of overloading the function right.

so basically your saying declare above main

Void DisplayMenu ()

Then in Main Displaymenu (){ cout Statements }

End.

I know that it will cout if i declare as void dipslay menu (); { Cout

what i want is function displayMenu () to display i keep getting linker errors if i use displaymenu () though

so display menu is the cout statements using the void as prototype

[Banfa]

endl also flushes the output so no need to worry about that.

Look you basic structure for calling you dsiplayMenu function should be like this

void displayMenu();  // Predeclare Function 
 
int main()
{
    displayMenu();   // Call function
}
 
// Define function
void displayMenu()
{
    // cout statements here
}