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Friend functions in C++

Friend functions are actually not class member function. Friend functions are made to
give private access to non-class functions. You can declare a global function as friend, or a
member function of other class as friend.

Hence, friend functions can access private data members by creating object of the class.
Similarly we can also make function of some other class as friend, or we can also make an
entire class as friend class.

When we make a class as friend, all its member functions automatically become friend
functions.

Function Class Example

In this example we have two classes XYZ and ABC. The XYZ class has two private data
members ch and num, this class declares ABC as friend class. This means that ABC can access
the private members of XYZ, the same has been demonstrated in the example where the
function disp() of ABC class accesses the private members num and ch. In this example we
are passing object as an argument to the function.

#include <iostream.h>

class XYZ

private:

char ch;

int num;

public:

void read()

cout<<”enter the character and number”;

cin>>ch>>num;

friend class ABC;

};

class ABC

public:

void disp(XYZ obj)

cout<<obj.ch<<endl;

cout<<obj.num<<endl;

};

int main() {

ABC obj;

XYZ obj2;

Obj2.read();

obj.disp(obj2);

return 0;

Friend Function:

Similar to friend class, this function can access the private and protected members of
another class. A global function can also be declared as friend as shown in the example below:

Friend Function Example

#include <iostream.h>

#include<conio.h>
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class XYZ

private:

int num;

char ch;

public:

void read()

cout<<”enter the character and number”;

cin>>ch>>num;

friend void disp(XYZ obj);

};

void disp(XYZ obj)

cout<<obj.num<<endl;

cout<<obj.ch<<endl;

int main()

XYZ obj;

Obj.read();

disp(obj);

getch();
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return 0;

Addition of members of two different classes using friend Function

#include <iostream.h>

#include<conio.h>

class B;

class A

private:

int numA;

public:

read(int n)

numA=n;

// friend function declaration

friend int add(A, B);

};

class B {

private:

int numB;

public:

put(int m)

{
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numB=m;

friend int add(A , B);

};

int add(A objectA, B objectB)

return (objectA.numA + objectB.numB);

int main()

A objectA;

B objectB;

A.read(6);

A.read(43);

cout<<"Sum: "<< add(objectA, objectB);

getch();

return 0;

#include <iostream.h>

#include<conio.h>

class Box

double width;

public:
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friend void printWidth( Box box );

void setWidth( double wid );

};

void Box::setWidth( double wid )

width = wid;

void printWidth( Box box )

cout << "Width of box : " << box.width <<endl;

int main()

Box box;

box.setWidth(10.0);

printWidth( box );

getch();

return 0;

Processing Shopping List

#include<iostream.h>

#include<conio.h>

const m=50;

class ITEMS

int itemCode[m];
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float itemPrice[m];

int count;

public:

void CNT (void)

count=0;

void getitem(void);

void displaysum(void);

void remove(void);

void displayitems(void);

};

//===================================

void ITEMS :: getitem(void)

cout<< “Enter item code :”;

cin>>itemCode[count];

cout<< “Enter item cost :”;

cin>>itemPrice[count];

count++;

void ITEMS :: displaysum(void)

float sum=0;

for(int i=0;i<count;i++)

{
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sum=sum+itemPrice[i];

cout<<”\n Total value : “<<sum<<”\n”;

void ITEMS :: remove(void)

int a;

cout<<”Enter itemcode : “;

cin>>a;

for(int i=0;i<count;i++)

if(itemCode[i] == a)

itemPrice[i] = 0;

void ITEMS :: displayitems(void)

cout<<”\n Code Price\n”;

for(int i=0;i<count;i++)

cout<<”\n”<<itemCode[i];

cout<<”\n”<<itemPrice[i];

cout<<”\n”;
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int main()

ITEMS order;

order.CNT();

int x;

do

cout <<”\n You can do the following”;

cout <<”\n Enter appropriate number”;

cout <<”\n1 : Add an item”;

cout <<”\n2 : Display total value”;

cout <<”\n3 : Delete an item”;

cout <<”\n4 : Display all items”;

cout <<”\n5 : Quit”;

cout <<”\n\nWhat is your option”;

cin>>x;

switch(x)

case 1 : order.getitem();break;

case 2 : order.displaysum();break;

case 3 : order.remove();break;

case 4 : order.displayitems();break;

case 5 : break;

default: cout<<”Error in input, try again\n”;

}
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while(x != 5);

getch();

return 0;