error expected unqualified-id before return in c

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when I want to compile I get   Probl  me   expected unqualified-id before  return  return 0  about last line   erreur expexted declaration before   token  I left the code unchanged just the middle part I changed    whats the problem    here is my code      include  lt iostream gt  using namespace std   int main       cout  lt  lt   Pensez a un personnage   Mlle Rose  le Professeur Violet            lt  lt   le Colonel Moutarde    lt  lt  endl         lt  lt   le Reverend Olive ou Mme Leblanc    lt  lt  endl  lt  lt  endl     cout  lt  lt   Votre personnage a-t-il des moustaches  1   oui  0   non         bool moustaches    cin  gt  gt  moustaches     cout  lt  lt   Votre personnage porte-t-il des lunettes        bool lunettes    cin  gt  gt  lunettes     cout  lt  lt   Votre personnage porte-t-il un chapeau        bool chapeau    cin  gt  gt  chapeau     cout  lt  lt   Est-ce que votre personnage est un homme        bool homme    cin  gt  gt  homme     cout  lt  lt      gt  Le personnage auquel vous pensez est       if  chapeau                                                            Completez le programme a partir d ici                                                        cout  lt  lt   le Professeur Violet        else if  moustaches            cout  lt  lt   le Colonel Moutarde             else if  not lunettes            cout  lt  lt   Mlle Rose             else if  homme            cout  lt  lt  le R  v  rend Olive             else           cout  lt  lt  Mme Leblanc                                                                  Ne rien modifier apres cette ligne                                                           cout  lt  lt  endl     return 0      ----------

User · Answer

Just for the sake of people who landed here for the same reason I did:

Don't use reserved keywords

I named a function in my class definition delete(), which is a reserved keyword and should not be used as a function name. Renaming it to deletion() (which also made sense semantically in my case) resolved the issue.

For a list of reserved keywords: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/keyword

I quote: "Since they are used by the language, these keywords are not available for re-definition or overloading. "

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if  chapeau      You forgot the ending brace to this if statement  so the subsequent else if is considered a syntax error  You need to add the brace when the if statement body is complete   if  chapeau        cout  lt  lt   le Professeur Violet     else if  moustaches        cout  lt  lt   le Colonel Moutarde

User · Answer

You need to move        before the line of  cout  lt  lt  endl  to the line before the first else

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Suggestions    use consistent 3-4 space indenting and you will find these problems much easier use a brace style that lines up    vertically and you will see these problems quickly always indent control blocks another level use a syntax highlighting editor  it helps  you ll thank me later   for example   type functionname  arguments         if  something                do stuff           else               do other stuff           switch  value                case  a               astuff             break          case  b               bstuff               fallthrough   always comment fallthrough as intentional         case  c               break          default    always consider default  and handle it explicitly             break            while   the lights are on                 if   something happened                         run around in circles             if   you are scared     yeah  much more than 3-4 levels of indent are too many                                scream and shout                                   return typevalue    always return something  you ll thank me later

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