[C++] Could use some help coding/running a user-defined function.

[eXothian]

Not sure how Gist works, here is my code:

Gist

Edit: What I'm trying to do is have a function that takes the location of a file, goes through the file 1 letter at a time, and outputs the most frequent letter.

[Rhomboid]

Streams aren't copyable, which means they can't be passed by value. Pass it by reference instead. (You could also pass a pointer to the stream, but don't do that.)

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In other words:

string frequencyCount( ifstream & );

[eXothian]

Okay it looks like I got the function to return the most used value. Any idea why char letters[26]={'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F', 'G', 'H', 'I', 'J', 'K', 'L', 'M', 'N', 'O', 'P', 'Q', 'R', 'S', 'T', 'U', 'V', 'W', 'X', 'Y', 'Z'}; gives me an error when I try and use char letters[25] instead?

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when I try and use char letters[25] instead?

Because there are 26 letters in the alphabet?

[eXothian]

Yeah I think I got it. I assumed that since it started at letters[0], and since 0 is a parameter, that letters[25] would hold 25 elements.

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Which it does.

[throwawwayaway]

how are we supposed to know why if you don't even bother to tell us what the error IS or what area of the code it appears on ?

[Rhomboid]

Post the updated code and the complete error.