Trouble with my assignment

[nataleilani]

I'm a few months into taking C++ and this is my hardest assignment so far. I've read my book and gone to tutoring, but I'm just having too much trouble trying to figure out how to make a char function and calling it.

A function named menu that returns a character and does not accept any parameters. This function will display:

Welcome to <your name>’s Space Travel Company
M)ost Powerful Calculation
D)iscount Calculation
H)ow Many Calculation
Q)uit

I tried making a char function and it turned out like this:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

char menu();

int main ()
{
menu();

system("PAUSE");
return 0;
}

char menu()
{

cout << "Welcome to Natalie’s Space Travel Company!" <<endl;
cout << endl;
cout << "(M)ost Powerful Calculation" << endl;
cout << "(D)iscount Calculation" << endl;
cout << "(H)ow Many Calculation" << endl;
cout << "(Q)uit" << endl;
cout << "Please enter the option (M,D,H, or Q): ";


}

[osgwsy]

Hi :) For you char menu, is a function that requires to return a char. So you will need to return a char. In order to do that, you have to add a variable. For example:

char menu()
{

	char option; // to be returned
	cout << "Welcome to Natalie’s Space Travel Company!" <<endl;
	cout << endl;
	cout << "(M)ost Powerful Calculation" << endl;
	cout << "(D)iscount Calculation" << endl;
	cout << "(H)ow Many Calculation" << endl;
	cout << "(Q)uit" << endl;
	cout << "Please enter the option (M,D,H, or Q): ";
	cin >> option; // get user's input
	return option; // return user's input
} 

Then at your main, you will have: char option = menu(); .

Hope this helps :)