SAMS Teach Yourself C++ in 10 Minutes SECOND EDITION

Appendex A. Operators

The table in this appendix lists and describes the many operators of the C++ language. Many of these operators are available for overloading in your classes.

When overloading the operators, you are not restricted to the types indicated here. Often the type will be your class. You can also overload any infix operator more than once to work with different types, but remember that the return type is not part of what differentiates two overloads.

Operator	Name/Meaning	Works On	Overload	Example	Reads As
Arithmetic Operators
+	Add	Numeric and char	Y	a+b	Add a and b to produce a result
-	Subtract	Numeric and char	Y	a-b	Subtract b from a to produce a result
*	Multiply	Numeric and char	Y	a*b	Multiply a by b to produce a result