These are the errors the compiler is giving me on these lines od code - any help understanding or fixing this issue ????

\extpersontype.h(35) : error C3646: 'extPersonType' : unknown override specifier
\extpersontype.h(37) : error C2091: function returns function
\extpersontype.h(44) : fatal error C1903: unable to recover from previous error(s); stopping compilation

35.    extPersonType (string = "", string = "", int = 1, int = 1, int = 1900,
36.	              string = "", string = "", string = "", int = 0,
37.				  string = "", string = "");
38.private:
39.	personType person;
40.	dateType birthDate;
41.	addressType myAddress;
42.	string association;
43.	string phone;
44.};
45.#endif
extPersonType (string = "", string = "", int = 1, int = 1, int = 1900, string = "", string = "", string = "", int = 0, string = "", string = "");

What are you trying to do with this line of code?

It is supposed to hold the firstName,lastName,birthday 00-00-000, street, city,state,zip, phone#,group...

Please post a complete program that exhibits the problem. If you think the current complete program is too large, remove stuff (without losing the error) until it's small enough to post.

As Narue says, lets see the whole header file. Looks to me like you're trying to define a class and that line is an attempt to make a default constructor; something like

extPersonType::extPersonType(){
  person = " ";
  birthDate.day = 1;
  ...
  ...

and so on.

Why not just make a function out of it? like enter address, cin >> address, enter name, cin >> name and stuff like that???

This is my personType.h file

#ifndef H_personType
#define H_personType

#include <iostream>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

class personType
{
public:
    void print() const;
      //Function to output the first name and last name
      //in the form firstName lastName.
  
    void setFirstName(string myFirstName);
      //Function to set firstName 
      //Postcondition: firstName = first;

    void setLastName(string myLastName);
      //Function to set lastName 
      //Postcondition: lastName = last;

    string getFirstName() const;
      //Function to return the first name.
      //Postcondition: The value of firstName is returned.

    string getLastName() const;
      //Function to return the last name.
      //Postcondition: The value of lastName is returned.

    personType();
      //Default constructor
      //Sets firstName and lastName to null strings.
      //Postcondition: firstName = ""; lastName = "";

    personType(string = "", string ="");
      //Constructor with parameters.
      //Sets firstName and lastName according to the parameters.
      //Postcondition: firstName = first; lastName = last;  

private:
    string firstName; //variable to store the first name
    string lastName;  //variable to store the last name
};

#endif

And this is the extPersonType.h file

#ifndef H_extPersonType
#define H_extPersonType

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include "addressType.h"
#include "personType.h"
#include "dateType.h"

using namespace std;

class extPersonType
{
public:
	void print() const;

	void setBirthDate (const dateType);
	void getBirthDate (dateType&) const;

	void setAddress (const addressType address);
    void getAddress (addressType& address) const;

	void setPerson (const string, const string);
	void getPerson ( string&, string&) const;

	void setAssociation (const string);
	string getAssociation() const;

	void setPhone (const string);
	string getPhone() const;

	void setExtPerson (string, string, int, int, int, string,
		               string, string, int, string, string)

    extPersonType (string = "", string = "", int = 1, int = 1, int = 1900,
	              string = "", string = "", string = "", int = 0,
				  string = "", string = "");
private:
	personType person;
	dateType birthDate;
	addressType myAddress;
	string association;
	string phone;
};
#endif

Narue - the entire program exists of 5 header files and 6 cpp files.......way too large unless I could zip it all up and send on here.....not sure

Narue - the entire program exists of 5 header files and 6 cpp files.......way too large unless I could zip it all up and send on here.....not sure

My post had two sentences and you clearly only read the first one. :icon_rolleyes:

personType(string = "", string ="");
//Constructor with parameters.
//Sets firstName and lastName according to the parameters.
//Postcondition: firstName = first; lastName = last;

That sort of thing is a nonsense. You've got the wrong end of the stick on how to write constructors. I think what that is meant to be is something like:

personType::personType(string first, string last){
  firstname = first;
  lastName = last;
}

or if it's meant to be a default constructor

personType::personType(){
  firstname = " ";
  lastName = " ";
}

You've got your code in the wrong place, and for something that's meant to be a function it's got horribly mangled parameters.

Read this:

http://cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/functions/

and this:

http://cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/classes/

and you'll be able to fix it all.

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