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Multicharacter literal in C and C++
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What do single quotes do in C++ when used on multiple characters?
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Closed 9 years ago.
C++ seems to allow up to four characters to be held in single quotes, such as:
char c = 'abcd';
but at runtime, only the last value ('d') seems to be actually stored away. This behavior seems to happen for pairs of two, three, or four (at five the compiler finally calls uncle). But what's the deal with this design? I don't really see the logic in it.
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Remove last character from C++ string
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Lets say I have a string variable with the value "bananas" in it. I want to subtract the last letter so the string becomes "banana". I am quite a newbie, so I dont even know how to tackle this.
Just use the pop_back() function.
Try this code, it 'subtracts' the last character:
std::string str = "bananas";
str.pop_back();
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What does the C++ standard state the size of int, long type to be?
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Getting the actual length of a UTF-8 encoded std::string?
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Closed 2 years ago.
I was reading the documentation of string::length and, as you can see, it says that
Returns the length of the string, in terms of bytes.
So my question is, is this ensured to be also the number of char that it contains?
I know that usually a char is 1 byte, but is this ensured somewhere? Like in the standard or somewhere else?
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What does \x mean in C/C++?
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strlen - the length of the string is sometimes increased by 1
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I know that hex-decimal number is usually prefixed with 0x in C/C++ language.
For example, 0x5A means 90 in decimal.
But I saw an example code using single-quoted character with '\x'.
BYTE outputBuffer[index++] = '\x5A'; // instead of 0x5A
Is the meaning of '\x5A' exactly the same as 0x5A?
If so, why is there alternative way of hex-decimal notation?
For a character, both are quite equal.
But only one can be mixed into a string with other normal characters. "ABC\x5A"
And only one can be used to initialize a large integral type: long long x = 0x1234567812345678LL;
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What does 'unsigned temp:3' mean?
I saw some c++ code today that used single colons.
bool variable_name : 1;
what is the difference between this and
bool variable_name = true;
The ": 1" means it is a bit field with 1 bit, or at least that's what it means in C. It probably was put there to save some memory, allowing multiple bools to be stored in the same byte. The downside is that you probably can't make a pointer to that bool.
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Closed 11 years ago.
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What do single quotes do in C++ when used on multiple characters?
The following code compiles in C++:
unsigned int x;
x = 'abc';
What does it mean? Is putting string between quotation marks legal? What does it do?
Is not a string, but a multi character literal. See What do single quotes do in C++ when used on multiple characters?. (Vote to close as duplicated)