Private members not accessible

[vernal ridge]

Hello everyone I am trying to learn the basics of classes and operator overloading. And I am getting the following error. Here is my code.

[dull fossil]

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[obtuse cedar]

Do make em friend ie:

Add at your class body in the bottom:

friend ifstream & operator>>(..;
friend ofstream & operator<<(..;

I omitted the full declaration

I see now you have actually done this - so I'm looking

How about you add :: before in the friend declarations

like friend ifstream & ::operator>>

[vernal ridge]

This doesn't work either

[amber briar]

In the operator >>, the complex parameter shouldn't be const, it's modified.
And in the header, you declared the operator << with the wrong return type complex => ostream &.

[vernal ridge]

ok

Can I upload the files over here so that if anyone online can fix it?

Thanks

[dull fossil]

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[vernal ridge]

No

[lilac swift]

try istream and ostream instead of ifstream and ofstream

@vernal ridge

[vernal ridge]

My brain has got fried... got stuck in it for hours and did some few tries. Then got busy with something else

[vernal ridge]

Will you be able to solve it please?

really appreciate your help

[lilac swift]

it might work

[vernal ridge]

ok lemme try now

[lilac swift]

it worked for me

[vernal ridge]

Coz will be heading out soon

[vernal ridge]

ok

[lilac swift]

    friend istream & operator>>(istream &is, complex &b) {
        is >> b.real;
        is >> b.imaginary;
        return is;
    }
    friend ostream & operator<<(ostream &os, const complex &b) {
        os << b.real<<"\n";
        os << b.imaginary<<"\n";
        return os;
    }

[vernal ridge]

looks good now

Having issues with overloading ~ operator

which is supposed to return the complex conjugate

[lilac swift]

hmm

complex complex::operator~() const {
    return {this->real, -this->imaginary};
}

[lilac swift]

try this out

should work

[dull fossil]

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