Thread: Consider this code...

If I had:

Code:

#include <string.h>

class someClass 
{
public:
someClass();
private:
void strlen();
};

void someClass::strlen()
{
 // do something like exit(0);
}

How could i use the strlen() defined in string.h ?

If you want to use the strlen function directly with your class, that is so it could access private data of you class make it a friend by using the friend token. However the strlen() function is already defined so I'm not exactly sure what your asking.

What is the purpose of

void strlen();

Well that was an example. I want to know how i can use native functions from a class with a member with the same name.

In c++ you may have many functions that have the same name as long as their signatures are different, that is their argument list. Therefore you could use a function called strlen() as long as it had a different argument list from the one defined in the String header file. For example:

Code:

int DoThis(void);
int DoThis(int, double);
int DoThis(char *);

These functions all have different signatures and are therefore allowed to have the same name. I hope this helps.