Friend Function
Friend Function
•The concept of data hiding and encapsulation dictates that
a non member function will not be able to access any
private or protected data of object.
•But there may arise situation(s) where private and
protected members need to be accessed by non member
functions.
•The above can be done by a special function called friend
function.
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Friend Function …
•A friend function is a non member having full access rights
to every private or protected members of a class.
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Characteristics of Friend Function
•It is not in the scope of the class, to which it has been
declared as friend.
•As it is not in the scope of the class, it cannot be called
using the object of that class.
•It can be invoked / called like a normal function.
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Characteristics of Friend Function …
•It can be declared either in the private or public part of a
class.
•The objects act as its argument.
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How to define Friend Function?
•Definition of the friend function is just like that of any
other normal C++ function, follows just after the class
definition of which it is a friend.
•The general syntax of friend function is “friend return_type
function_name(argument list);”, where the keyword
“friend” is used as function modifier.
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Friend Function: The Example is
class student
{
int roll;
char name[20];
int marks[5];
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Friend Function: The Example is
public:
void read();
void write();
friend int cal(student x);
};
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Friend Function: The Example is
int cal()
{
int msum=0;
for(int i=0;i<5;i++)
{
msum=msum+marks[i];
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Friend Function: The Example is
}
return msum;
}
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Friend Function: The Example is
void student::read()
{
cout<<“enter the roll”;
cin>>roll;
cout<<endl<<“enter the name”;
gets(name);
cout<<endl<<“enter marks for 5 different subjects”;
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Friend Function: The Example is
cout<<endl<<“enter marks for 5 different subjects”;
for(int a=0;a<5;a++)
{
cin>>marks[i];
}
}
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Friend Function: The Example is
void student::write()
{
cout<<“The roll is:”<<roll;
cout<<endl<<“The name is:”;
puts(name);
cout<<endl<<“The marks for 5 different subjects
are:”;
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Friend Function: The Example is
for(int a=0;a<5;a++)
{
cout>>marks[i];
}
}
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Friend Function: The Example is
int main()
{
clrscr();
student s;
s.read();
s.write();
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Friend Function: The Example is
cout<<cal(s);
getch();
return 0;
}
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