Accces through pointers

[Sharan123]

A pointer to the derived class can point to the objects of the base class.
True/Flase?
What is the answer to this statement , i guess it should be true becuase

  Derive *ptr;
ptr=&base;
ptr->functionofbase();

which is valid isn't it?

[Sharan123]

???

[NUj6URfi]

Do you have more code?

[Sharan123]

No its just a true and false statement i had in my exam , why do you need more code?

[NUj6URfi]

Oh. I thought functionofbase(); was involved. My understanding is that the pointer in question can point to the copy of the object in the derived class. Just not the object in the base class.

[Sharan123]

Thank you i don't know why but i guess it can't i want to ask another question

char name[20];
void displayn()
	{
		cout<<"Name :"<<name<<endl;
	}
	void setn(char *c)
	{
		strcpy(name,c);
	}
	char getn()
	{
		return *name;
	}

int main()
{
	
	char result[20];
	char p[20]="sharan";
	displayn();
	setn(p);
	displayn();
	cout<<getn()<<endl;
	strcpy(result,name);
	cout<<result<<endl;
	getch();
}

over here for getn i get a single character s how can i get full stored value

[AbstractionAnon]

You declared getn to return a single character, so that's what you're getting.

Change getn to return a pointer to the name.

const char * getn()
{ return name;
}

[Sharan123]

Thank you :)