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    copied!<p>I cant for the life of me figure out how to pass this array of structs throughout my program. Could anyone lend a hand? Right now i am getting an error in main that says: expected primary expression before ')' token. </p> <p><strong>Header:</strong> </p> <pre><code>#ifndef HEADER_H_INCLUDED #define HEADER_H_INCLUDED #include &lt;iostream&gt; #include &lt;fstream&gt; #include &lt;string&gt; #include &lt;cstring&gt; #include &lt;iomanip&gt; #include &lt;cctype&gt; using namespace std; struct addressType { char streetName[36]; char cityName[21]; char state[3]; char zipcode[6]; char phoneNumber[15]; }; struct contactType { char contactName[31]; char birthday[11]; addressType addressInfo; string typeOfentry; }; typedef struct contactType contactInfo; void extern readFile(ifstream&amp;, int&amp;, struct contactType *arrayOfStructs); void extern sortAlphabetically(); void extern userInput(char&amp;); void extern output(char&amp;); #endif // HEADER_H_INCLUDED </code></pre> <p><strong>main:</strong></p> <pre><code>#include "header.h" int main() { ifstream inFile; char response; int listLength; struct arrayOfStructs; inFile.open("AddressBook.txt"); if (!inFile) { cout &lt;&lt; "Cannot open the input file." &lt;&lt; endl; return 1; } readFile(inFile, listLength, arrayOfStructs); sortAlphabetically(); userInput(response); output(response); return 0; } </code></pre> <p><strong>readFile:</strong></p> <pre><code>#include "header.h" void readFile(ifstream&amp; inFile, int&amp; listLength, struct arrayOfStructs[]) { contactInfo arrayOfStructs[listLength]; char discard; inFile &gt;&gt; listLength; inFile.get(discard); for (int i = 0; i &lt; listLength; i++) { inFile.get(arrayOfStructs[i].contactName, 30); inFile.get(discard); inFile.get(arrayOfStructs[i].birthday, 11); inFile.get(discard); inFile.get(arrayOfStructs[i].addressInfo.streetName, 36); inFile.get(discard); inFile.get(arrayOfStructs[i].addressInfo.cityName, 21); inFile.get(discard); inFile.get(arrayOfStructs[i].addressInfo.state, 3); inFile.get(discard); inFile.get(arrayOfStructs[i].addressInfo.zipcode, 6); inFile.get(discard); inFile.get(arrayOfStructs[i].addressInfo.phoneNumber, 15); inFile.get(discard); inFile &gt;&gt; arrayOfStructs[i].typeOfentry; inFile.get(discard); } } </code></pre>
 

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