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Character Data Type (9.1) is a built-in data type to represent a single character from the computer’s character set most commonly used standard character set is ASCII letters, digits, symbols, punctuation marks, control characters (e.g. end of line, end of file, etc.) each character in ASCII set has a numeric code (0 .. 255) See Table F.3 in page 763 for ASCII table Character variables are defined using the type identifier char char a, ch, letter; Character literals are represented within single quotes 'A' '3' '.' 'f' Pay attention to the difference between strings with single letter and chars "A" versus 'A' first one is a string literal, second one is a character literal String variables (objects) has several private data members even if it has a single character in it. However, char variables occupy just one byte.

Character Codes in ASCII set Each character occupies one byte that is why character codes are between 0 and 255 first 32 characters (with codes 0 .. 31) are non-printable control characters such as eof blank character has the code 32 Uppercase letters are consecutive and ordered in ASCII set code for 'A' is 65, 'B' is 66, 'C' is 67, … 'Z' is 90 Similarly, lowercase letters are also ordered and consecutive code for 'a' is 97, … 'z' is 122 Similarly digit characters are ordered and consecutive too code for '0' is 48, '1' is 49, … '9' is 57 Do not memorize the codes for letters and digits; you can do character arithmetic (see next slides)

Character Arithmetic If you compare two characters (or a character with an integer) character codes are used in comparison If you apply an arithmetic operator (+ - * / %) to a character, integer code of the character is processed this is an implicit type casting (conversion) similar to bool And if you process the result of such an operation as character, a reverse conversion is automatically performed you can also process the result as integer (actually this is the default behavior) Example: the value of 'A' + 2 is 'C' if you process as a char (you do not have to know the codes in order to reach this result) 67 if you process as integer or if you do not mean any type Example: what is the value of 'Z' - 'A' ? 25 (you do not have to know the codes of A and Z to answer this question)

Examples Suppose digitch is a char variable and its content is a digit character (between '0' and '9'), how can you obtain that digit character’s numeric equivalent in an int variable digitnum? digitnum = digitch - '0'; Write a function that takes a character parameter and returns the uppercase equivalent of it if parameter is a lowercase letter. If parameter is not a lowercase letter, function returns it unchanged. char toupper (char ch) { if (ch >= 'a' && ch <= 'z') // if lowercase return ch + ('A' - 'a'); // return its uppercase return ch; // otherwise return parameter unchanged }

Escape Sequences in C++ Special symbols for some characters (mostly for control characters) to be used in character and string literals only. Not to be used while entering input Full list is in Table 4.1 (page 103) or Table A.5 (page 716) Some escape sequences \n newline character \t tab (used for aligned output) \a bell \" double quote \' single quote \\ backslash Example follows. What is the output? cout << "\"\\\n\"\"\n\\"; "\ "" \

Escape Sequences in C++ If you want to represent a nonprintable character (such as new line, bell) in a string or character literal, you have to use nonprintable escape sequences. "bla bla \n bla" '\n' However, for printable ones, you may use escape sequences whenever needed You may or may not use escape sequence to represent a double quote character in a char literal That means '\"' and '"' are the same You may or may not use escape sequence to represent a single quote character in a string literal That means "bla \' bla" and "bla ' bla" are the same However, you have to represent a double quote in a string literal as an escape sequence. Similarly, you have to represent a single quote in a char literal as an escape sequence. To represent a backslash, you always have to use escape sequence in both char and string literals

Type Casting Conversion of an expression to another type Examples among built-in types like double, int, char string cannot be used in type casting syntax type_name (expression) first expression is evaluated, then conversion is done Examples cout << double (3) / 4; output is 0.75 first 3 is converted into double (3.0), then divided by 4 cout << 3 / 4; without casting, integer division, output is 0 cout << double (3 / 4); first 3 / 4 is evaluated to 0, then result is converted output is 0

Type Casting Examples Conversion from signed to unsigned integers real division using two integers int a, b; double div; ... div = double (a) / b; Conversion from double to int cout << int (3.9); double value is truncated output is 3 Conversion from signed to unsigned integers cout << unsigned int (-100); output is NOT 100, output is 4294967196 the bit sequence to represent –100 is the same as the one of 4294967196

Type Casting Examples Conversion from int to char int i = 72; cout << char (i); output is H it is the character with code 72 Complex example: what is the value of the following expression? 3 + double (62 * (int ('C') - int ('A'))) / 5 2 124 124.0 24.8 27.8

Cast operators in C++ Four cast operators in C++, but only one is enough static_cast <type_name> (expression) functionally not different than type_name (expression) Example cout << static_cast <double> (3) / 4; output is 0.75 Easier to spot casts in the code, but causes longer code

Switch statement (Section 7.3.2) An alternative to if-else, but much less powerful Useful when you have several choices Syntax switch (selector_expression) { case label1: statement list; break; case label2: ... default : } - First selector is evaluated - Labels are searched. If the value of selector is listed, then execution jumps there - All statements are executed until break - If no label is the value of selector, statements after default are executed

Switch statement (Section 7.3.2) Restrictions selector expression must be integer (char, boolean ok), cannot be real (double, float) or string case labels must be given in literals (constant values) no expressions case a*2: invalid no ranges or lists case 1, 2, 3: invalid case 1 .. 10: invalid Advantage more efficient than if-else; only one statement is executed Disadvantage code becomes hard to read listing all possible values may not be convenient Better to see in an example

Switch example Input a digit between 0 and 9 and display its name. Display “not a digit” if not between 0 and 9. See displaydigit.cpp CAUTION: Do not forget break after each statement list, otherwise execution unconditionally continues until the next break or the end of the switch statement.

Three phases of creating an executable program 7.2.2, 7.2.3, 7.2.4, 7.2.5 3 steps preprocessing compilation linking

Preprocessing The preprocessor processes all #include directives (and other preprocessor commands – all preprocessor commands start with #) creates a translation unit which is the input of the next step (compilation) all #include’d files are pasted in the translation unit recursively e.g. replaces #include “foo.h” with contents of file foo.h, and does this recursively, for all #includes that foo.h includes and so on exceptions there are some preprocessor directives that causes conditional preprocessing #ifndef _FOO_H // if _FOO_H is not defined #define _FOO_H // define it and … header file for Foo goes here // include header file #endif if _FOO_H is not defined, then it is defined and file is included, otherwise file is not included prevents multiple inclusion of the same header file in a program

Preprocessing Where are the include files located? You can ask the preprocessor to look in certain directories in order (Tools->Options->Directories...). e.g. You can add your directory after the system directories to be automatically searched for referenced include files You get an error if the include file is not found in these directories adding an include file to the project is not sufficient

Preprocessing #define identifier token Example Another compiler directive Generally written at the beginning of program (not in a function) All instances of identifier in all functions are replaced with token during preprocessing Token is any character sequence Example #define LENGTH 10 ... cout << LENGTH << endl; Displays 10 on screen The above statement is compiled as cout << 10 << endl; Because LENGTH is replaced with 10 before compilation (during preprocessing)

Compiler The compiler takes a translation unit as input and produces compiled object code as output The object code is platform/architecture specific The source code is the same on all platforms We may need to compile several cpp files dice.cpp, randgen.cpp, prompt.cpp, robots.cpp, … because some functions and class implementations are in those files if you are using them in your program, you have to compile them together with your main cpp file add to the same project you may generate libraries out of those files ready-to-use object code need not to compile, but add the .lib file to the project

Linker Linking combines object files and libraries to create a single executable program (the file with .exe extension) May still create errors even if compilation is successful unresolved external symbol ... undefined symbol ... Primary reason would be missing libraries or implementation files (like date.cpp, prompt.cpp) header files provide the definition, but body is missing! If you have such errors, try to find where those symbols are implemented and include those libs or cpps in your project

Next Arrays and vectors (Chapter 8) including searching and sorting (partially Chapter 11) Recursion, scope rules, global and static variables partially Chapter 10