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String Objects and C-strings: Caveats

The standard string class has a dual interface: it supports both C-style strings as well as string objects in various operations: const char text[] = “hello world”;string s = text;

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Function Overloading

In order to overload a function, a different signature should be used for each overloaded version. A function signature consists of the list of types of its arguments as well

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Pre-Defined Macros

All C/C++ compilers define the following macros: __DATE__ //a literal containing the compilation date in the form “Apr 13 1998″__TIME__ //a literal containing the compilation time in the form “10:01:07″__FILE__

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Prefer dynamic_cast<> to typeid()

A robust, long lasting OO design relies on the premise that an existing class can be re-used in the future by means of derivation. Therefore, examining the actual type of

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Simulating Inheritance of Assignment Operator

As opposed to base class’ constructor and destructor, which are automatically invoked from the derived class’ constructor and destructor respectively, a user-defined assignment operator defined in a base class is

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<SPAN> Attribute in IE

Question: I’ve been working on completely redoing my company’s Web site for over a month and a half now. To help me out, I bought a book on HTML 4.0

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Approach to studying C++

Question: My development background primarily involves COBOL and BASIC on UNIX platforms. I decided to further my language knowledge and branched out into C & C++. I’ve largely been teaching

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InetAddress to String

Question: Is it possible to convert from java.net.InetAddress to string? Answer: Yes. Just call the InetAddress toString() method. Also, if you specifically want the host name, use getHostName. If you

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Year 2000 and C++

Question: I am urgently looking for information regarding Year 2000 compliancy for Borland’s C++ compilers, esp. versions 3.1 and 4.02. Answer: I can’t imagine anything about C++ or the compiler