Help with Class Constructor Overloading

[crazedfred]

I am working on an assignment involving class constructors and am a tad confused. Here is the assignment:


Create a class person with data members for a person's name, age, and payrate such that the below definition is possible. Note that you may need to define multiple overloaded constructors. Also have a display member function. An unititialized person object should have the string "blank" for their name and 0's for age and payrate.

void main(void)
{
person employees[5] = {"Ann Annson", 20, 20.20
"Bill Billson",
30,
"Carl Carlson"};
for (int x=0; x < 5; x++)
employees[x].display();
}



This is all well and good, but I can't get the definition to work. Here is my current source code:

#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

class Person //this class holds and displays a person's name, age, and payrate
{ //note: assignment says call the class "person" but I'm calling it "Person"
//because I like capitalizing that way to denote a class or struct
private:
string name; //name
int age; //age
double payrate; //hourly wage
public:
Person(): name("blank"), age(0), payrate(0)
{ } //default constructor
Person(string na, int ag, double pay):
name(na), age(ag), payrate(pay)
{ } //full 3-argument constructor


Person(string na): name(na), age(0), payrate(0)
{ }//consturctor for name only
Person(int ag): name("blank"), age(ag), payrate(0)
{ }//consturctor for age only
Person(double pay): name("blank"), age(0), payrate(pay)
{ }//constructor for payrate only

void display(); //this function prints out the Person data
};
void Person::display() //this function prints out the Person data
{
cout << name << " is " << age << " years old and is paid " << payrate << " an hour." << endl;
}


int main ()
{
Person employees[5] = {
Person("Ann Annson", 20, 20.20),
"Bill Billson",
30,
"Carl Carlson"
};
for (int x=0; x<5; x++)
employees[x].display();


cout << "Press Enter to exit....";
cin.get(); //wait for enter to be pressed before exiting
return 0;
}



What am I doing wrong?
It returns

In function `int main()':
46: invalid conversion from `const char*' to `int'
46: initializing argument 1 of `Person::Person(int)'
46: invalid conversion from `const char*' to `int'
46: initializing argument 1 of `Person::Person(int)'

[crazedfred]

Okay, wow. All I had to do was change

Person(string na): name(na), age(0), payrate(0)
{ }//consturctor for name only

to

Person(char *na): name(na), age(0), payrate(0)
{ }//consturctor for name only

and it works.

Here I was thinking it was some huge syntax problem.
I feel real smart now.