No Names returned in search function - c++

Question

So I cant get my search function to return to the actual title of the movies with the instantiated array with a movie title, director, and actor. I create an array of objects, instantiate it, run a do while loop to get the position, and run a search algorithm to get the title, director, and actor of the movie. But for the life of me I cant get the code to return the actual title, director or actor. It will say the name is in the list, but returns an empty space. I linked a picture below to show the return. When I add a movie to the array it says the movie does not exist in the array.
The movie Class:
class Movies{
private:
// variables
string titleCode;
string directorCode;
string actorCode;
public:
// constructors
Movies() // default constructor, allows no arguments.
{
//titleCode = "Home Movie"; directorCode = "Colin Powers"; actorCode = "Colin Powers";
}
Movies(string t, string d, string a) // constructor
{
titleCode = t; directorCode = d; actorCode = a;
}
// getter
string getTitle() const
{
string title = titleCode;
return title;
}
string getDirector() const
{
string director = directorCode;
return director;
}
string getActors() const
{
string actors = actorCode;
return actors;
}
// setters
void setTitle(string t) // cout/cin were giving random "ambigious" error so i added std:: till they all stopped giving it.
{
std::cout << "Enter the title of the Movie: " << endl;
std::cin >> t;
titleCode = t;
}
void setDirector(string d)
{
std::cout << "Enter the Director of the Movie: " << endl;
std::cin >> d;
directorCode = d;
}
void setActors(string a)
{
std::cout << "Enter the main protagonist: " << endl;
std::cin >> a;
actorCode = a;
}};
Movies Array:
Movies moviesArr[ARR_SIZE];
Function prototype for the search function
int searchMovies(const Movies[], int, string);
Instantiated array of objects to search through
Movies hollywood[ARR_SIZE] =
{ // title, director, actor
Movies("Avatar", "James", "James"),
Movies("Terminator", "John", "John"),
Movies("Predator", "Michael", "Michael")
};
Do while to get returned position and names:
do
{
// get the movie title
cout << "Enter the movie title to search: " << endl;
cin >> title;
// search for the object
pos = searchMovies(hollywood, ARR_SIZE, title);
// if pos = -1 the title was not found
if (pos == -1)
cout << "That title does not exit in the list.\n";
else
{
// the object was found so use the get pos to get the description
cout << "The movie: " << moviesArr[pos].getTitle() << " is in the list. " << endl;
cout << "It was Directed by: " << moviesArr[pos].getDirector() << endl;
cout << "It also stars: " << moviesArr[pos].getActors() << endl;
}
// does the user want to look up another movie?
cout << "\nLook up another movie? (Y/N) ";
cin >> doAgain;
} while (doAgain == 'Y' || doAgain == 'y');
Search function to search array:
int searchMovies(const Movies object[], int ARR_SIZE, string value){
int index = 0;
int position = -1;
bool found = false;
while (index < ARR_SIZE && !found)
{
if (object[index].getTitle() == value) // if the title is found
{
found = true; // set the flag.
position = index; // record the values subscript
}
index++; // go to the next element.
}
return position; // return the position or -1;}
output looks like:
Nondescrip return, no names, no director, no title.

Answer 1

This line:
Movies moviesArr[ARR_SIZE];
defines an empty, uninitialized array of Movies. You are searching for a particular Movie title in hollywood, which finds the movie. However, you are then indexing moviesArr:
cout << "The movie: " << moviesArr[pos].getTitle() << " is in the list. " << endl;
which is undefined behaviour (and printed nothing for the title in your case).
Replace that with:
cout << "The movie: " << hollywood[pos].getTitle() << " is in the list. " << endl;