Question about return of a function

Question

I have wrote a function that asks first name and last name and stores them separately in 2 variable namely firstName and lastName.
How i can use this two string variables in the body of program when i call the function?

Answer 1

You need to use struct or class. Struct has two string and this function return struct.

Answer 2

Hi Yousef, there's a more standard way of doing this that does not include writing a custom struct or class.
There is a class called "pair" in the standard library header "utility". It provides two places to store values per pair. You can use that.
Also, if you need to return more parameters, you can do this by returning a container class like "list" or "vector" (in case they are of the same nature) or by the class "tuple" (part of C++11 standard library header "tuple" and the commonly used Boost library in the header "boost/tuple.hpp"). The container classes and the tuple class let you return a virtually arbitrary number of arguments.
(Please be aware that this might entail a significant slowdown in your code if the number of elements in either of these containers is high; for a discussion of options to solve this for say more than 100000 elements pls post again :-) )