Did you think (grin) I had gone away.  No.  As I told you,
you guys in your examples have me saving some of them for later
while I work on basics.
        I've finally gotten smart and placed my includes in a
separate include that I don't have to type over and over again. So,
generally, I won't send it with the main program.  This time, I
will:
// class.hpp
#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 
// and the main program:
#include "class.hpp"
class database
{
        private:
                char name[30];
                char address[60];
                char city[20];
                char state[2];
                char zip[10];
        public:
                void getdata(char a[], char c[], char s[], char z[])
                {
                        strcpy(address,a);
                        strcpy(city,c);
                        strcpy(state,s);
                        strcpy(zip, z);
                }
                void showdata()
                {
                        cout > name;
                        cout << '\n';
                        cout << "Address= " << address << endl;
                        cout << "City= " << city << endl;
                        cout << "State= " << state << endl;
                        cout << "Zip code= " << zip << endl;
                }
};
main()
{
        clrscr();
        database d;
        d.getdata ( "5713 York", "Metairie", "La", "70003-2019");
        d.showdata();
        return 0;
}
        I'm really working through Chapter 7 of Lafore's book on C++
(the chapter on Classes and Objects) but I can't help when I notice
that ALL of the examples deal ONLY with ints and I want to see how
to use chars for some strings.  Thus, I looked at some examples
elsewhere and put the above together.  
        I purposely made it so I could input ONE of the data items
and just set up the rest as constants.  There really is only one
name living at this address!!!
        Also, when I expanded the tabs after importing the code I
noted that my setting of 8 for the tabs is to big.  I'll fix that.
Sincerely, 
                                     Frank
                                                                              
                                                       
        Any comments any of you care to make will be welcome.  Be as
tough as you want to.  I want to learn and my year is growning
short!
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