c++ declaring a function with ostream in class header

Question

I am having problems declaring a class function from the header file, am not sure how it should be formatted in the header. The purpose of this is to save class object data into a file, to be able to read back in later.

employee.h

void writedata(ofstream);

employee.cpp

void Employee::writedata(ofstream& employeewrite)
{
}

Employeewrite is the ostream object I declared in main

main.cpp

ofstream employeewrite("c:\\test\test.txt");

Thanks for any help.

Look closer at the types in your first two code blocks. – chris Feb 02 '13 at 22:42 — chris, Feb 02 '13 at 22:42

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 02 '13 at 22:46

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You're declaring writedata to take a ofstream in your header, but defining it to take an ofstream& (a reference to an ofstream) in the source file. Make them match up.

answered Feb 02 '13 at 22:46

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