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Overloading >> operator for inherited class

Immo (26)
How would I make this work? The professor instructed us to use private variables so I couldn't set them to protected. Do I have to set up new variables to input Person's private members?

Thanks in advance.

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class Person
{
    friend istream& operator>>(istream&, Person&);
    friend ostream& operator<<(ostream&, Person&);
private:
    char* m_name;
    int m_age;
    string m_ssn;
public:
    Person() = default;
    Person(char*, int, const string&);
    Person(const Person&);
    ~Person();
    void setName(char*);
    char* getName();
    void setAge(int);
    int getAge();
    void setSSN(string);
    string getSSN();
    Person& operator=(const Person&);
};

// ...

class Student : public Person
{
    friend istream& operator>>(istream&, Student&);
    friend ostream& operator<<(ostream&, Student&);
private:
    float m_gpa;
public:
    Student() = default;
    Student(char*, int, const string&, float);
    Student(const Student&);
    void setGPA(float);
    float getGPA();
    Student& operator=(const Student&);
};

istream& operator>>(istream &is, Student &iStudent)
{
    // ?
    
    return is;
}
JLBorges (13770)
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#include <iostream>
#include <string>

struct person
{
    virtual ~person() = default ;
    person( std::string name = {}, int age = 0, std::string ssn = {} )
        : m_name(name), m_age(age), m_ssn(ssn) { /* if( age < 0 ) etc. */ }

    std::string name() const { return m_name ; }
    void rename( std::string name ) { m_name = name ; }

    int age() const { return m_age ; }
    void age( int new_age ) { /* if( age < 0 ) etc. */ m_age = new_age ; }

    std::string ssn() const { return m_ssn ; }
    void ssn( std::string new_ssn ) { m_ssn = new_ssn ; }

    // etc.

    virtual std::ostream& write( std::ostream& stm ) const
    { return  stm << "name: " << name() << " age: " << age() << " yrs ssn: " << ssn() ; }

    virtual std::istream& read( std::istream& stm ) { /* TODO */ return stm ; }

    private:
        std::string m_name;
        int m_age;
        std::string m_ssn;
};

std::ostream& operator<< ( std::ostream& stm, const person& p ) { return p.write(stm) ; }
std::istream& operator>> ( std::istream& stm, person& p ) { return p.read(stm) ; }

struct student : person
{
    student( std::string name = {}, int age = 0, std::string ssn = {}, double gpa = 0 )
        : person( name, age, ssn ), m_gpa(gpa) { /* if( gpa < 0 ) etc. */ }

    double gpa() const { return m_gpa ; }
    void gpa( double new_gpa ) { /* validate gpa */ m_gpa = new_gpa ; }

    virtual std::ostream& write( std::ostream& stm ) const override
    { return person::write(stm) << " gpa: " << gpa() ; }

    virtual std::istream& read( std::istream& stm ) override { /* TODO */ return stm ; }

    private: double m_gpa ;
};

int main()
{
    person p { "capablanca", 127, "12345" } ;
    student s { "grunfeld", 122, "56789", 9.4 } ;
    std::cout << p << '\n' << s << '\n' ;
}

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