a simple person class in objective c

I'm starting to learn objective c, I made a simple person class, i get 6 errors, expected specifier-q开发者_JAVA技巧ualifier-list before '-' token

just wondering if someone can explain to me what I'm doing wrong,

thanks

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
#import <Foundation/NSObject.h>
#import <Foundation/NSString.h>


@interface Person:NSObject
{
    NSString *firstName;
    NSString *lastName;


    -(void) setFName:(NSString *) theFirstName;
    -(void) setLName:(NSString *) theLastName;
    -(void) printName;
}
@end

@implementation Person
{

    -(void) setFName:(NSString *) theFirstName
    {
        firstName = [[NSString alloc]initWithString: theFirstName];
    }

    -(void) setLName:(NSString *) theLastName
    {
        lastName = [[NSString alloc]initWithString: theLastName];
    }

    -(void) printName
    {
        NSLog(@"The person's full name is",firstName,lastName);
    }

}

@end


int main (int argc, const char * argv[]) {
    NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];

    Person *person = [[Person alloc] init];

    [person setFName:@"Amir"];
    [person setLName:@"Karimian"];
    [person printName];

    [person release];
    [pool drain];
    return 0;
}

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Or even simpler:

@interface Person : NSObject

@property (nonatomic, copy) NSString * firstName;
@property (nonatomic, copy) NSString * lastName;

- (NSString *) fullName;

@end

@implementation Person
@synthesize firstName, lastName;

- (NSString *) fullName {
  return [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ %@", [self firstName], [self lastName]];
}

- (void) dealloc {
  [self setFirstName:nil];
  [self setLastName:nil];
  [super dealloc];
}

@end

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Method declaration will be outside of closing brace.

@interface Person:NSObject
{
    NSString *firstName;
    NSString *lastName;
}

-(void) setFName:(NSString *) theFirstName;
-(void) setLName:(NSString *) theLastName;
-(NSString *) firstName;
-(NSString *) lastName;
-(void) printName;

@end

And in implementation no brace is required.

@implementation Person
// { is not required
-(void) setFName:(NSString *) theFirstName {
    // code
}

-(void) setLName:(NSString *) theLastName {

}

// in this way

// } is not required
@end

There are at least two logical errors. In printName

NSLog(@"The person's full name is %@ %@",firstName,lastName);

Your format string was wrong.

And in main

[person setLName:@"Karimian"];

You have user "ser" instead of "set".

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In the header file:

@interface Person:NSObject
    {
        NSString *firstName;
        NSString *lastName;
    }


    @property(retain, nonatomic) NSString * firstName;
    @property(retain, nonatomic) NSString * lastName;

    -(void) setFName:(NSString *) theFirstName;
    -(void) setLName:(NSString *) theLastName;
    -(void) printName;

    @end

In the implementation use the @synthesize to create your getter and setter accessor methods:

@implementation Person

/* Create the getter and setter properties
   which are also called accessor methods
*/
@synthesize firstName = _firstName;
@synthesize lastName = _lastName;

//The other methods
-(void) setFName:(NSString *) theFirstName{
}
-(void) setLName:(NSString *) theLastName{
}
-(void) printName{
}

@end

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Also, apart from taskinoor's answer, it's good practice to implement a -(void)dealloc method in your class:

-(void)dealloc {
    [firstName release]; //since they have been alloced.
    [lastName release];
    [super dealloc];
}

Note that if you wanted to use properties, like Dave DeLong, you should be careful about choosing @property(assign), @property(copy) or @property(retain) and managing whether you release the NSStrings or not.