Error: invalid initialization of type

Question

istream& operator>> (istream &in, vector <Customer>& cvect)
{
    while (!in.eof())
    {
         //read from file into cvect vector
    }
    return cvect;
}

For this i get "invalid initialization of reference of type cvect". What am i doing wrong?

No, i just wanna make changes to the Customer vector. thats all — Gribbles Chan, Oct 15 '13 at 11:25
That's not the whole error message. I'd bet it further says "with an rvalue of type Vector". You can't bind non-const references to temporaries. — jrok, Oct 15 '13 at 11:27
[`while (!eof())` is wrong.](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5605125/why-is-iostreameof-inside-a-loop-condition-considered-wrong) — chris, Oct 15 '13 at 11:32

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 15 '13 at 11:28

Your function says it will return a istream reference:

istream& operator>> (istream &in, vector <Customer>& cvect)

Your compiler believes you. You then say

return cvect;

This is not an istream, it's a vector. Try returning the istream as you promised you would:

return in;

Error: invalid initialization of type

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