I am having trouble figuring this out. I only have one error and it is in main. I am trying to write a program that will output first just a random sudoku type grid(function called random), then I am trying to output a sudoku type grid that has no duplicates in only the rows.(funciton called rows) I haven't ran it yet because it hasn't compiled. The one error it returns is:

line 37: Error: columns is not defined. in main... its in bold, below

these are all seperate files because that is the way our professor wanted them

any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

main.cpp
#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <ctime>

using namespace std;

int algorithm(void);
int code(string);
int random (int grid[][9], int i, int j);
int print(int grid[][9], int rows, int columns);
int rows(int grid[][9], int rows, int columns);

int main()
{

   int result;
   int grid[9][9];
   int i, j;


   result = code("main.cpp");        // reads and prints code file
   result = code("print.cpp");       // reads and prints code file
   result = code("random.cpp");      // reads and prints code file
   result = code("rows.cpp");        // reads and prints code file


   if(result !=0)

     cout<<"Error!";

   else

   //call function
   random(grid,i,j);
   rows(grid, 9, 9);
   [B]print(grid, rows, columns);[/B]
}


random.cpp


# include <iostream>
# include <ctime>
# include <iomanip>

using namespace std;

//print  prototype
int print(int grid[][9], int rows, int columns);


int random (int grid[][9], int i, int j)
{
 
   srand(time(0));

  
   for (i=0; i<9; i++)
   {
    for (j=0; j<9; j++)
    {
     grid[i][j] = rand()%9 + 1;

    }
    print(grid, 9, 9);
   }
 return 0;
}

print.cpp


#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <ctime>

using namespace std;


int print(int grid[][9], int rows, int columns)
{

 for (int i=0; i <rows; i++)
 {

  for (int j=0; j < columns; j++)
  {
   cout << grid[i][j] << ' ';
  }
  cout << endl;
 }
 return 0;
}

rows.cpp

#include <iostream>
#include <ctime>

//prototype
int print(int grid, int rows, int columns);

void rows(int grid[][9], int row, int column)
{
  int i, j, check=0;

  srand(time(0));

  for(j=0; j <column; j++)
  {
   for(i=1; i<row; i++)
   {
    random();
    for(check=0; check<i; check++)
    {
     if(grid[check][j] == grid[i][j])
     grid[i][j]= rand()%9+1;
     break;
    }
   }
  }

return;

}

>>print(grid, rows, columns)
Well, where did you declare the variable columns ? You have to declare variables before they can be used or passed as parameters.

>>print(grid, rows, columns)
Well, where did you declare the variable columns ? You have to declare variables before they can be used or passed as parameters.

well i thought that by putting the prototype above in main that you didn't have to, because it didn't say I needed to declare columns in the same line of code.

function prototypes don't declare variables -- they only tell you and the compiler the data type of each parameters. Prototypes can be written without names, but only data types as in this example int foo(int, const char*, float) You will have to declare all the variables you want to pass to that function someplace before the function is actually called.

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