I used a function to calculate information about certain instructions I intialized in a map,like this

void get_objectcode(char*&token1,const int &y)
{
map<string,int> operations;
    operations["ADD"] = 18;
    operations["AND"] = 40;
    operations["COMP"] = 28;
    operations["DIV"] = 24;
    operations["J"] = 0X3c;
    operations["JEQ"] =30;
    operations["JGT"] =34;
    operations["JLT"] =38;
    operations["JSUB"] =48;
    operations["LDA"] =00;
    operations["LDCH"] =50;
    operations["LDL"] =55;
    operations["LDX"] =04;
    operations["MUL"] =20;
    operations["OR"] =44;
    operations["RD"] =0xd8;
    operations["RSUB"] =0x4c;
    operations["STA"] =0x0c;
    operations["STCH"] =54;
    operations["STL"] =14;
    operations["STSW"] =0xe8;
    operations["STX"] =10;
    operations["SUB"] =0x1c;
    operations["TD"] =0xe0;
    operations["TIX"] =0x2c;
    operations["WD"] =0xdc;

         if  ((operations.find("ADD")->first==token1)||(operations.find("AND")->first==token1)||(operations.find("COMP")->first==token1)
            ||(operations.find("DIV")->first==token1)||(operations.find("J")->first==token1)||(operations.find("JEQ")->first==token1)
            ||(operations.find("JGT")->first==token1)||(operations.find("JLT")->first==token1)||(operations.find("JSUB")->first==token1)
            ||(operations.find("LDA")->first==token1)||(operations.find("LDCH")->first==token1)||(operations.find("LDL")->first==token1)
            ||(operations.find("LDX")->first==token1)||(operations.find("MUL")->first==token1)||(operations.find("OR")->first==token1)
            ||(operations.find("RD")->first==token1)||(operations.find("RSUB")->first==token1)||(operations.find("STA")->first==token1)||(operations.find("STCH")->first==token1)||(operations.find("STCH")->first==token1)||(operations.find("STL")->first==token1)
            ||(operations.find("STSW")->first==token1)||(operations.find("STX")->first==token1)||(operations.find("SUB")->first==token1)
            ||(operations.find("TD")->first==token1)||(operations.find("TIX")->first==token1)||(operations.find("WD")->first==token1))

            {
                int y=operations.find(token1)->second;
                //cout<<hex<<y<<endl;
            }

        return ;
}

which if I cout y in the function gives me an answer just fine which is what i need but there is a problem tring to return the value from the function so that I could use it outside the function , it gives a whole different answer, what is the problem