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Operator Overloading in C++

The document discusses operator overloading in C++, specifically overloading the insertion and extraction operators. It explains that these operators are typically overloaded as global functions rather than member functions since they are used with ostream and istream objects like cout and cin.

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Operator Overloading in C++

The document discusses operator overloading in C++, specifically overloading the insertion and extraction operators. It explains that these operators are typically overloaded as global functions rather than member functions since they are used with ostream and istream objects like cout and cin.

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CSC-210: Object Oriented Programming

Operator Overloading
Lecture 09

By: Ms. Zupash Awais


Bahria University Lahore Campus
▪ >> used with cin
▪ Extraction operator
Istream and ▪ Used for input
ostream ▪ << used with cout
operators ▪ Insertion operator
▪ Used for output
▪ cout is an object of ostream class and cin is an object of
istream class
Things to ▪ These operators must be overloaded as a global function.
Understand And if we want to allow them to access private data
members of the class, we must make them friend.
▪ In operator overloading, if an operator is overloaded as a
member, then it must be a member of the object on the left
side of the operator.
▪ For example, consider the statement “ob1 + ob2” (let ob1
and ob2 be objects of two different classes). To make this
statement compile, we must overload ‘+’ in a class of ‘ob1’
Why these or make ‘+’ a global function.
operators must be ▪ The operators ‘<<‘ and ‘>>’ are called like ‘cout << ob1’
overloaded as and ‘cin >> ob1’. So, if we want to make them a member
method, then they must be made members of ostream and
global? istream classes, which is not a good option most of the
time.
▪ Therefore, these operators are overloaded as global
functions with two parameters, cout and object of user-
defined class.
#include<iostream>
using namespace std;
class Stream
{
int i, j;
public:
Stream():i(0), j(0){}
friend ostream& operator << (ostream& out, const Stream& s);
friend istream& operator >> (istream& in, Stream& s);
};
ostream& operator << (ostream& out, const Stream& s)
{
out << s.i << " " << s.j << endl;
return out;
}
istream& operator >> (istream& in, Stream& s)
{
cout << "Enter value of i ";
in >> s.i;
cout << "Enter value of j ";
in >> s.j;
return in;
}
int main()
{
Stream obj;
cin >> obj;
cout << obj;
}

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