August 1999
OP216 : OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING

QUESTION 5

Total Marks: 20 Marks

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(a) Explain what is meant by a copy constructor, and give an example of when such an operation is performed.

 

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(b) Consider the class String, which contains a character array, and an integer, reference_counter.

class String {
public:
     int length();       //Return the length of the string data
     char char_at(int);  //Return the character at the given position in data
     void update_at(int, x char y);   // Update the character at the given                                                    // position in data private:
     char* my_string;
     int reference_counter = 0;
} ;

(i) Define a function strcmp, which takes two objects String by reference, and returns 0 if the character array stored in each object is the same, and -1 otherwise. You may not use any standard library functions.

(ii) Implement the member function update_at, such that it will update the character at position x with the character specified by y, if and only if the string is long enough.

(iii) Write a function replace, which takes a reference to a string s, and two char parameters x and y, and will replace all occurrences of the character x with the character y.

(iv) Implement an overloading of the operator != that takes two strings by reference, and returns 1 if the strings differ, and 0 if they are the same.


  

 

 

 

 

 

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