Objectives
In this chapter you’ll:
• Create and use struct
s and to understand their near equivalence with classes.
• Use typedef
to create aliases for data types.
• Manipulate data with the bitwise operators and to create bit fields for storing data compactly.
• Use the functions of the character-handling library <cctype>
.
• Use the string-conversion functions of the general-utilities library <cstdlib>
.
• Use the string-processing functions of the string-handling library <cstring>
.