COSC1315 Fundamentals of Programming

Instructor:  Prof. Richard G. Baldwin

Assignment Number:  11

Object-Based program that illustrates pointer variables.

Making certain that you comply with the General Requirements, write a C++ program that meets the following specifications:

BEGIN WRITTEN SPECIFICATIONS

This program must use Object-Based Programming Syntax.

The following program should compile and run, but it may not produce the correct output.

//Begin program code
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

class Asg11{ 
  public:
  static void classMain(){
    Asg11* ptrToObject = new Asg11();
    ptrToObject -> doSomething();
  }//End classMain function
  //-----------------------------------------------------//

  void doSomething(){
    string theVar;
    string* ptrToTheVar = &theVar;
    *ptrToTheVar = "Put your name here";
    cout << ptrToTheVar << endl;
  }//end doSomething function
};//End Asg11 class
//-------------------------------------------------------//

int main(){
  Asg11::classMain();
  return 0;
}//end main
//-------------------------------------------------------//
//End program code

Modify the above code, if necessary, to cause it to use a local pointer variable to store and then to display your name on the screen.

Program Output:

Put your name here

END WRITTEN SPECIFICATIONS

As specified in the General Requirements, copy the above specifications, including the two lines of upper-case characters and paste the specifications into a comment block at the beginning of your source code file.

Note:  Sometimes when copying C++ source code into HTML documents (like this one) the code will become corrupted.  This is particularly true for code that involves left and right angle brackets such as in:

#include <iostream>
if(x <= y){

Although Prof. Baldwin has made an effort avoid such problems, it is possible that some corruption of source code may have occurred during the creation of these HTML documents.  If you see anything that you believe might be corrupted source code, please notify Prof. Baldwin so that he can look into the problem, correct the code if necessary, and make all of the students aware of the problem.

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