C++ How to Program, 10/e

22 Bits, Characters, C Strings and structs

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 the string-conversion functions of the general-utilities library <cstdlib>.

• To use the string-processing functions of the string-handling library <cstring>.

Outline

1. 22.1 Introduction

2. 22.2 Structure Definitions

3. 22.3 typedef and using

4. 22.4 Example: Card Shuffling and Dealing Simulation

5. 22.5 Bitwise Operators

6. 22.6 Bit Fields

7. 22.7 Character-Handling Library ...