Learning to Program in C++

Objectives of This Chapter

By the end of this chapter we will have

1. Improved the string class to make it easy to search for a partially matching string;

2. Learned how to use include guards to prevent a class interface from accidentally being defined more than once;

3. Learned about default arguments, which allow us to write one function that can take a varying number of arguments;

4. Learned about the explicit keyword, which gives us more control over how constructors will be used;

5. Defined a concatenation operator that "adds" one string to the end of another one;

6. Written a version of operator >> that can read a string of any length from the keyboard or a file;

7. Learned something about the hazards of the "magic" value 0;

8. Discovered just how difficult it is to ...