C++ How to Program, Ninth Edition

22. Bits, Characters, C Strings and structs

The same old charitable lie Repeated as the years scoot by Perpetually makes a hit—“You really haven’t changed a bit!”

—Margaret Fishback

The chief defect of Henry King Was chewing little bits of string.

—Hilaire Belloc

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences.

—William Strunk, Jr.

Objectives

In this chapter you’ll learn:

• To create and use structs and to understand their near equivalence with classes.

• To use typedef to create aliases for data types.

• To manipulate data with the bitwise operators and to create bit fields for storing data compactly.

• To use the functions of the character-handling library <cctype>.

• To use ...