Introduction to Programming

Dr. Yang, QingXiong(with slides borrowed from Dr. Yuen, Joe)

LT8: Characters and Strings

CS2311 Computer ProgrammingOutline2Characters Declaration and InitializationASCII

ASCII Code

3Outline4Characters Declaration and InitializationASCII Input and Output (cin,cout)Strings Declaration and InitializationCopy and compareInput and output

Syntax Summary5KeywordscharPunctuators[], , Constant \n , \0

Character data type6Written between single quotes. Examples'A', 'b', '*'In C++ language, a char type is represented by an integer.Therefore, a character can also be treated as an integer

6Character type examples7cout c2;

CScin >> c3;

CS2char c1,c2,c3;cin >> c1; //enter the string "CS2311"cin >> c2; //get the character 'S' from buffercin >> c3; //get the character '2' from buffer

Printing a character14char c1='A',c2='B';cout > c;if ( )//'A'-'Z'cout