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Help with Address Book Project -- arrays, structures, etc

Hi, I have a project that I am working on, it is extremely important and due in a little over 24 hours. I have a good start on it, but I know I have a lot of work to do. Can you help me through some of the next steps?

I am a beginner and I am not asking for answers, just hoping that I can get some help while I work on this project.

Here is the problem::

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you are going to construct functionality to create a simple address book. Conceptually the address book uses a structure to hold information about a person and an array of structures to hold multiple persons (people).

Visually think of the address book like so:

http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/6162/address114630941476389yr2.jpg

When you add a person to the Address Book you add a structure with the information about the person to the end of the array:

http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/9633/address215491261552405dw1.jpg

When you get a person, you get the first person in the address book. With each successive call to get a person, you get the next person in the array. For instance the first call to get a person you will get "Joe Smith" when you make the second call to get a person you would get "Jane Doe" so on and so forth. After you get the last person from the array the next call to get a person will start over at the beginning ("Joe Smith" in this case).

Details:
1.) Create a project called addressBook
2.) Add a header file and cpp file for your project
3.) All of your definitions should go in the header file.
4.) In the header file create the definition for your structure. Call it PERSON.
5.) Your structure should have fields for first name, last name, address, and optionally a phone number.
6.) Inside the cpp file you will create the functionality for your address book
7.) Inside the cpp file declare a global array of 10 PERSONS to hold all of the records in your address book call it people. Use a const called MAXPEOPLE to set the size of the array. Put the const in the header file.
8.) You are probably going to want to declare an integer variable to keep track of where you are at in the array.
9.) Create functions addPerson, getPerson
10.) These functions should take as arguments a reference to a PERSON structure.
11.) The addPerson method should copy the structure passed to it to the end of the array
12.) the getPerson should start at array element 0 and with each successive call return the next person in the array.
13.) Create overloaded findPerson functions. One function should take only the persons last name
14.) The other function should take both the persons last and first names.
15.) All code for the functions should be in the cpp file
16.) From main write functionality that will test your address book code

All of the functions that are part of the address book should take a reference to a PERSON structure as one of its arguments. This is not necessarily the only argument for each function but should be one of them.

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As you can see, he really got some steps laid out, but most all of the logic is left unsaid and I seem to have a grasp on the code and understand the layout and what everything needs to do, but I am kind of at a stand still because I am getting errors not related to the obvious syntax errors like having // before some stuff causing syntax but I think there are some errors with the passing of arguments. I would like to make sure that I am passing things correctly and eliminate all the errors as I can before moving on.

Please help me out a bit and let me know if there is something I am really not getting right. Please let me know if I am going off track with something. I am a beginner and I cannot use anything but my header and iostream, ctime, cmath, etc.

HEADER FILE
 
 
const int MaxPeople = 10;
 
struct person
	{
		char first;
		char last;
		char *address;
		char *number;
	};
 
int i = 0;
 
 
HERE IS THE MAIN CPP FILE
 
 
#include <iostream>
#include "header.h"
 
using namespace std;
void addPerson(char bookArray[MaxPeople]);
void getPerson(char thisPerson);
int findPerson(char last, char thisPerson);
int findPerson(char thisPerson);
 
 
 
char bookArray[MaxPeople];	
int main()
{
	person pers;
	int x = 1;
	while (x == 1);
	{
		char choice;
		cout << "Address Book" << endl<< endl;
		cout << " Press 1 to add to the address book. " <<endl;
		cout << " Press 2 to get a person. " << endl;
		cout << " Press 3 to find a person" << endl;
		cout << " Press 4 to find a person by last name and first " << endl;
		cout << " Press 5 to find a person by last name only " << endl;
		cout << " Press 6 to quit " << endl;
		cout << endl << "Please make a selection:  ";
		cin >> choice;
		switch (choice)
		{
			case '1':
				addPerson(pers);
				
				break;
			case '2':
				getPerson(pers);
 
				break;
			case '3':
				findPerson(pers.last,pers);
				
				break;
			case '4':
				findPerson(pers);
				break;
			case '5':
				findPerson( pers.last,pers);
				break;
			case '6':
			default:
				cout << "Please make a valid selection: "
				cin >> choice;
				break;
 
 
		}
 
	i++;
	}
return 0;
}
 
 
void addPerson(char addArray[MaxPeople])
	{
		
		person add;
		cout << "Enter First Name" << endl;
		cin >> add.first;
		cout << "Enter Last Name" << endl;
		cin >> add.last;
		cout << "Enter Address" << endl;
		cin.getline(add.address, 40);
		cout << "Enter Address" << endl;
		cin.getline(add.number, 12);
		addArray[i] = add;
		
	}
 
void getPerson(char thisPerson)
	{
		// Gets a person in array[0] then next time it is called it will get array[1] and so forth. When it reaches the end of the array it will return the original array[0]
	}
 
int findPerson (char last, char thisPerson)
	{
	return (//the search result);
	}
 
int findPerson (char thisPerson)
	{
	return (//the search result);
	}

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