THE TUTORIAL LIBRARY
Every time you run your compiler, your preprocessor runs first. The preprocessor looks for preprocessor instructions, each of which begins with a pound symbol (#). The effect of ea
Read tutorialThe most popular library is almost certainly the string library, with perhaps the function strlen() called most often. strlen() returns the length of a null-terminated string. List
Read tutorialThe second most popular function in string.h probably was strcpy(), which copied one string to another. This may now be diminished somewhat as C-style null-terminated strings have
Read tutorialRelated to strcpy() and strncpy() are the standard functions strcat() and strncat(). The former concatenates one string to another; that is, it appends the string it takes as its s
Read tutorialThe standard library supplies the function time(), which takes a pointer to a time_t variable and fills it with the current time. It also provides ctime(), which takes the time_t v
Read tutorialqsort() takes four arguments. The first is a pointer to the start of the table to be sorted (an array name works just fine), the second is the number of elements in the table, the
Read tutorialThe functions in stdlib you are likely to use most often include atoi(), itoa(), and the family of related functions. atoi() provides ASCII to integer conversion. atoi() takes a si
Read tutorialIn C++, an exception is an object that is passed from the area of code where a problem occurs to the part of the code that is going to handle the problem. The type of the exception
Read tutorialIt is important to understand that operators have a precedence, but it is not essential to memorize the precedence. Use this table just in case you need a quick reference.
Read tutorialWhen you move from C++ to Java, one of the more subtle, yet important issues you will face is the difference between a C++ destructor and a Java finalize() method. Although similar
Read tutorialC++ allows one class to inherit two or more base classes at the same time. Java does not. To understand the difference, consider the two hierarchies depicted here: In both cases, s
Read tutorialOne extensively used feature of C++ that Java does not support is default function arguments. For example, the area() function shown in the following C++ program computes the area
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