Chapter 2
Creating Data Structures
IN THIS CHAPTER
Discovering all the different data types
Casting and converting
Using structures with your data
Comparing and manipulating structures
C++, being a computer language and all, provides you with a lot of ways to manipulate data — numbers, letters, strings, arrays — anything you can store inside the computer memory. To get the most out of C++, you should know as much as you can about the fundamental data types. This chapter covers them and how to use them.
This chapter refers to the ANSI standard of C++. ANSI is the American National Standards Institute. The information provided in this chapter deals with the ANSI standard (singular) of C++. Fortunately, the GNU gcc compiler that comes with Code::Blocks is ANSI-standard-compliant.
You don’t have to type the source code for this chapter manually. In fact, using the downloadable source is a lot easier. You can find the source for this chapter in the \CPP_AIO4\BookV\Chapter02 folder of ...
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