Class is one of the most important features of C++. A class is a collection of variables of di erent data types and
functions. e variables in a class are called member variables, and the functions in a class are called member
functions or methods. A class is created with the keyword
class
. Class is similar to structure the only di er-
ence being that all the members of a class are by default private, whereas all the members of structure are public
by default. Syntactically, class is similar to structure.
e general form of class is as follows:
class Class-name
{
private:
members
acess-specifier1
members
acess-specifier2
members
- - - - - - -
- - - - - -
};
e body of the class ...
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