So I have a C++ program that I'm refactoring from someone elses code. It has a File class object called File_C that's intended to handle all the file i/o for input files and put the data in files into ...

In the first part of this series, we covered the basics of pointers in C, and went on to more complex arrangements and pointer arithmetic in the second part. Both times, we focused solely on pointers ...

Pointers — you either love them, or you haven’t fully understood them yet. But before you storm off to the comment section now, pointers are indeed a polarizing subject and are both C’s biggest ...

I know many other languages use the eval() function to take a string argument and evaluate it as part of the source code (so you can run a function or assign a variable etc). I've seen it in PHP, ...

From our study of C++, it should be clear that, unlike class encapsulation and single inheritance, which were essentially free in C, polymorphism in C involves some complexity and overhead. In the ...