C++ Basics Tutorial 5

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C++ Basics Tutorial 5 Constants

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C++ Basics Tutorial 5. Constants. Literal Constants Defined Constants Declared Constants. Topics Covered. Most easy to see and most obvious constants. Literal constants. Integer Numerals Floating-Point Numerals Boolean literals Character literals String literals. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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C++ Basics Tutorial 5Constants

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Topics Covered

• Literal Constants• Defined Constants• Declared Constants

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Literal constants

• Most easy to see and most obvious constants

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Types of literal constants

• Integer Numerals• Floating-Point Numerals• Boolean literals• Character literals• String literals

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Integer Numerals

• A number without decimal points (duh!)• Examples: 23, 56, 8…

• In C++, expressing numerical constants does not require any special character like “”.

• Integer numerals can be defined in other numeral forms like octal or hexadecimal.• 255 Decimal Value• 0377 Octal value• 0xff Hexadecimal Value

All represent same number

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Decimal, Octal, hexadecimal, signed and unsigned representation

• To denote an octal number(Base 8 number) start the number with 0 (zero)

• To denote a hexadecimal value(base 16 number) start with 0 x (zero “x”)

• Write normally for decimal numerical(base 10) system value.• Force int to be unsigned by adding u(or U) at the end of

number. (Ex: 19U) or l(or L) to make it long( 19L or 19UL)

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Floating Point literals

• To represent number with decimal or exponents• A decimal point “.” or a “e” can be added to represent the

number, where e means to the “power by 10” to number after e. • Also can have both “e” and “.”• Example: 3.14 Value of Pi

5.97e24(Mass of earth) = 5.97 x 10 ^ 24 or 1.67e-27(Mass of proton) = 1.67 x 10 ^ -27• Force number to be long double add L or l, to force number to

be float add f or F in the end of the number• E or e both are same. C++ is not case sensitive in this case.

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Boolean literals

• Only two boolean literals in C++: true or false.• Can be represented by bool data type.

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Character literals

• One character. Example: ‘a’, ‘b’, ‘A’ etc…• To represent character literals we put them inside single

quotes. This is done to differentiate them from possible variable identifiers that we might define in the program.

• If you just write 1 it is numerical literal. But ‘1’ makes it character literal.

• ‘a’ is a character literal where as just a is a variable identifier named a.

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String literals

• Combination of characters.• Inside double quotes “”.• Example “Dean”

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Escape Characters

• Characters and string both can have a special character called escape character.

• Impossible or at least difficult to express otherwise• Precede by a backslash(\) and a character. • Example: \n New Line, \t Tab • ‘\n’ or ‘\t’ or “LineOne\nLineTwo\nLineThree”• “\”DoubleQuote\”” = “DoubleQuote” when you print.

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Few list of escape characters:

• \n Newline• \t tab• \r carriage return• \v vertical tab• \b backspace• \f form feed• \a alert beep• \’ single quote(‘)• \” Double quote(“)• \? question mark(?)• \\ backslash(\)

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Defined constants

• Using something called preprocessor directive• Use #define preprocessor directive• Define constant that will be used frequently.• Example: #define PI 3.14159#define NEWLINE ‘\n’• This now have defined two constants called PI and NEWLINE. Now

you can use PI and NEWLINE as other constants we learned earlier. • Due to #define the C++ compiler literally replaces all the

occurrences of PI and NEWLINE with assigned value(3.14159 or ‘\n’)

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Directive

• A directive is not a C++ statement. It is interpreted by the preprocess that happens before even looking at the code of the program. So these directive does not need to have a semicolon in the end.

• Directives start with #. Applies to #include as well.

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Declared Constants (const)

• Using const prefix with specific data type you make a variable unchangeable throughout the program.• Example:

const int a = 23;const char newline = ‘\n’

• The are completely regular variables except that you cannot modify these after you initialize.

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• Next Chapter: We will talk about operators• Then: Basic input/ output.• End of Basics.

• Then to Control structures / Functions