C++ How to Program, Sixth Edition

Chapter 21. Bits, Characters, C Strings and structs

	The same old charitable lie Repeated as the years scoot by Perpetually makes a hit—“You really haven’t changed a bit!”
	--Margaret Fishback

	The chief defect of Henry King Was chewing little bits of string.
	--Hilaire Belloc

	Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences.
	--William Strunk, Jr.

OBJECTIVES

In this chapter you’ll learn:

• To create and use structs.

• To pass structs to functions by value and by reference.

• To use typedef to create aliases for previously defined data types and structs.

• To manipulate data with the bitwise operators and to create bit fields for storing data compactly.

• To use the functions of the character-handling ...