"sahm" <abigael_b@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1102705969.422959.56170@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...

i need help to use this function, but use an overloaded operator<<
instead....
ostream operator<<(ostream& out, vector<Card>& deck)
{
int i = 0;
for (int s = 1; s <= 4; s++)
{
for (int r = 1; r <= 13; r++, i++)
{
deck[i].setSuit(s);
deck[i].setRank(r);
deck[i].printCard();
cout << endl;
}
system("pause");
cout << endl;
system("pause");
//return out;

}
}

this works when i compiled it, but after the last set of cards are
printed on d screen, my program exits and there's debugger exception
modification on d screen...

use 'out' instead of 'cout' for more flexibility (I think this is where
the problem lies too if you output to cout then send more to it while its
open or something??? something to do with cout being volatile (not the C++
operator meaning, but kinda the same, I think)) can't see it in my head
at the moment

what I'd do is put friend 'ostream &operator<<(ostream& out, vector<Card>&
deck)' in the vector and use the data directly (or use the member
functions in 'deck' (below))

and change the print card to the end of the Fn and... (unless printCard is
doing something else, but if it is why is it in the operator<<() fn)

out << "Suit: " << deck[i].suit << ", Card: " << deck[i].rank << endl;

or along those lines with the 'deck' member functions to get the values

alternativly making a seperate ostream& operator<<(ostream& out,
Card&card) and use that to print the card out seperatly and a member
function: const Card& GetCard(int nSuit, int nRank), in deck



Course I've no real idea of if this'll work, and the code might not be
exact, but I've done similar programs this way