Help Pointers and chars in C++;

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13 Nov 2012CPOL

Here you are only assigning the adress of x into name. And at the adress of x is the 'm' of "missak".yup::yup(char *x){ name = x;}Here the content of the adress "name" is printed. And the content is a single char. It's the letter 'm'.void yup::print(){ cout<<*name;...

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1. Help Pointers and chars in C++;

13 Nov 2012CPallini

Quote:cout<<*name;You should write insteadcout << name;By the way you shouldn't store a pointer to the original character array (it could be a temporary). You should instead copy the array content. Even better you could use a std::string:#include "stdafx.h"#include...

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2. Help Pointers and chars in C++;

13 Nov 2012missak boyajian

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Hey.When I do this:char *suit = "Hearts"; coutusing namespace std;class yup{public: yup(char *); void print();private: char *name;};yup::yup(char...

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3. Help Pointers and chars in C++;

13 Nov 2012Orjan Westin

When I do this:char *suit = "Hearts"; cout<<*suit;it prints Hearts;It shouldn't, it should print the character 'H' only. What you do is, you dereference the pointer-to-char, so it is only a char. That's why it's only the char that is printed from your class. If you wish the class to...

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Years ago I programmed COM-DLLs in C/C++ for some VB6 guys. It was a remote service and alarming software for refrigeration systems.

Also developed software in WinCE (C/C++) for a remote gateway to connect to the refrigeration controllers via CAN-Bus.

Since 2009 more and more C# and .Net development.

Actually developer for intra logistic software.

Currently dominated by huge spaghetti code monster :-/

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