by NSW Reference and Information Services Group

Question: C++ – Function does not take 5 agruments..How to fix this?
I keep getting this error when I compile my code.
error C2660: ‘Book::setBook’ : function does not take 5 arguments.
How can I fix this?

#include
#include

using namespace std;

class Book {
private:
int PubYear; //Variables
string Title, Author, Genre, Publisher;
public:
Book( ); //Default Constructor

void setTitle( string BookTitle )
{ Title = BookTitle; }
void setAuthor( string AuthorName)
{ Author = AuthorName; }
void setGenre( string GenreType )
{ Genre = GenreType; }
void setPublisher( string Pub )
{ Publisher = Pub; }
void setPubYear( int Year )
{ PubYear = Year; }

int GetYear() //Accessors
{return PubYear;}

string GetTitle()
{return Title;}

string GetAuthor()
{return Author;}

string GetGenre()
{return Genre;}

string GetPublisher()
{return Publisher;}

void setBook( string BookTitle, string AuthorName, string GenreType, string Pub, int Year )
{
setTitle( BookTitle ); //Mutators
setAuthor( AuthorName );
setGenre( GenreType );
setPublisher( Pub );
setPubYear( Year );
}

void print()
{
cout << "Title: " << GetTitle() << endl
<< "Author: " << GetAuthor() << endl
<< "Genre: " << GetGenre() << endl
<< "Publisher: " << GetPublisher() << endl
<< "Year Published: " << GetYear() << endl;
};

};

//-------------------------------------------------
int main()
{
Book book1, book2, book3, book4, book5;

cout << "Start of test:\n";
book1.setBook("In Cold Blood", "Truman Capote", "Non-Fiction", "Random House", 1966);
book1.print();

return 0;

}
couldn't get it to work using your advice bob b.
i dont know what deconstructor you're talking about.

Answer:

Answer by bob b
I tried your code and i get linker errors with Visual C++ 2005.
Anyhow to get it working I had to put brackets with the constructor and deconstructor

Book(){/* do nothing… */}

~Book(){/* do nothing… */ }

and all works now… hope this helps…