error: expected unqualified-id before ‘for’

Question

The following code returns this: error: expected unqualified-id before ‘for’

I can't find what is causing the error. Thanks for the help!

#include<iostream>

using namespace std;

const int num_months = 12;

struct month {
    string name;
    int n_days;
};

month *months = new month [num_months];

string m[] = {"Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", 
              "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"};
int n[] = {31, 29, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31};

for (int i=0; i<num_months; i++) {
    // will initialize the months
}

int main() {
    // will print name[i]: days[i]
    return 0;
}

Answer 1

Your for loop is outside a function body.

Answer 2

Ok just to make this answer clear (since I made the rookie mistake too).

the for loop was outside int main() (or any other function) along with everything else since main() sits by itself empty at the bottom of the code.

Sorry more than needed to be said for some but since this issue is more directed to newbies a more elaborate explanation is needed.