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

The simplest thing that comes to mind is performing a little refactoring on the code flow. Create a function that processes the input and returns the constructed object:

Report loadReport() {
    if (user_input()) {
        // read input
        return Report(name,company);
    } else {
        return Report();
    }
}

Then call the function from main. The small change in the design is the introduction of a function whose single responsibility is creating a Report from user input, which actually makes sense as a function.