Create objects in conditional c++ statements

Question

I am learning c++, and I just got to the object oriented chapter. I have a question about creating objects inside if statements.

The problem I\'m working on says

Answer 1

I don't know if I understood your question correctly but can't you just declare report before the if/else block and then initialize inside it?

Report header;

if (...) {
  header = Report();
else
  header = Report(name,company);

Or in a shorter way:

Report header; // calls default constructor

if (shouldInitializeWithParams) {
  header = Report(name,company);
}

Of course this requires you to have the empty constructor defined.