Passing structure as argument help

[Jepickle]

I'm extremely new to structures and have a book that has this problem in it. I'm simply trying to pass the structure to a function to output what was assigned to the structure's two variables, movie1 and movie2. Any explanation on how to fix what I'm doing wrong here would be much appreciated, thanks.

void displayMovie(MovieData m)
{
cout << m.movieTitle << endl;
cout << m.director << endl;
cout << m.releaseDate << endl;
cout << m.movieRuntime << endl;
}

struct MovieData
{
string movieTitle;
string director;
int releaseDate;
string movieRuntime;
};

int main()
{
MovieData movie1;
MovieData movie2;

movie1.movieTitle = "test";
movie1.director = "test2";
movie1.releaseDate = 2000;
movie1.movieRuntime = "120 minutes";

movie2.movieTitle = "TEST";
movie2.director = "TEST2";
movie2.releaseDate = 2000;
movie2.movieRuntime = "118 minutes";

displayMovie(movie1);
displayMovie(movie2);

return 0;
}

[Zhuge]

Please use [code][/code] tags around your code. And what is the issue you are having here?

[Jepickle]

Well, the compiler does not say I have any syntax errors, but when I run it I get this error message, "term does not evaluate to a function taking 1 arguments"

[Jepickle]

But all this toy program is supposed to do is pass the structure to the function and display what was entered in main()

[Zhuge]

Try putting a forward declaration (basically a prototype for your structure) before the function definition. I can't think of any other issues.

[Jepickle]

And now I am oh so gratefully receiving errors under "<<" in my function. Again, I'm brand spanking new to structures, let alone programming in general

void displayMovie(MovieData m);

struct MovieData
{
string movieTitle;
string director;
int releaseDate;
string movieRuntime;
};

void displayMovie(MovieData m)
{
cout << m.movieTitle << endl;
cout << m.director << endl;
cout << m.releaseDate << endl;
cout << m.movieRuntime << endl;
}

int main()
{
MovieData movie1;
MovieData movie2;

movie1.movieTitle = "test";
movie1.director = "test2";
movie1.releaseDate = 2000;
movie1.movieRuntime = "120 minutes";

movie2.movieTitle = "TEST";
movie2.director = "TEST2";
movie2.releaseDate = 2000;
movie2.movieRuntime = "118 minutes";

displayMovie(movie1);
displayMovie(movie2);

return 0;
}