C -- expected primary-expression before

Question

I am new to C   and programming  and have run into an error that I cannot figure out  When I try to run the program  I get the following error message  stringPerm cpp  In function    int main       stringPerm cpp 12  error  expected primary-expression before    word     I ve also tried defining the variables on a separate line before assigning them to the functions  but I end up getting the same error message  Can anyone offer some advice about this  Thanks in advance  See code below   include  lt iostream gt   include  lt string gt  using namespace std   string userInput    int wordLengthFunction string word   int permutation int wordLength    int main         string word   userInput        int wordLength   wordLengthFunction string word        cout  lt  lt  word  lt  lt   quot  has  quot   lt  lt  permutation wordLength   lt  lt   quot  permutations  quot   lt  lt  endl           return 0     string userInput         string word       cout  lt  lt   quot Please enter a word   quot       cin  gt  gt  word       return word     int wordLengthFunction string word        int wordLength       wordLength   word length         return wordLength     int permutation int wordLength            if  wordLength    1                return wordLength            else               return wordLength   permutation wordLength - 1

User · Accepted Answer

You don t need  string  in your call to wordLengthFunction     int wordLength   wordLengthFunction string word    should be  int wordLength   wordLengthFunction word

User · Answer

You should not be repeating the string part when sending parameters   int wordLength   wordLengthFunction word     you do not put string word here

User · Answer

Change  int wordLength   wordLengthFunction string word     to  int wordLength   wordLengthFunction word

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