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by Cyclone

Removing double quotes from Cstring [Beginners]

Hi, sorry its late... I am trying to do a few things with strings. - I need to remove double quotes from a users input - Then the string needs to be divide i...

[7 replies] Last: Thanks for your advice. I myself don't get the double quotes even pre... (by Cyclone)

by Duthomhas

Short films worth watching [Lounge]

I don’t particularly like horror, but this one was great! The Curse of Dracular[/b] https://youtu.be/kjd6jETfd5c?si=Oa9pabr4-kvrHC6v (Contains a claymatio...

[4 replies] Last: The Brightest Star https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwOYQLfuEcI (by Duthomhas)

by leo2008

anagram using vector [General C++ Programming]

I am trying to solve this problem. Are there any other better approaches here? Implement a function which takes a list of words as an argument and finds all a...

[2 replies] Last: If you go big (a large dictionary of words) you may want to move out t... (by jonnin)

by seeplus

New Safe C++ Proposal (1,2,3,4,5,6) [Lounge]

There is now a Safe C++ proposal that extends C++ by defining a superset of the language that can be used to write code with strong safety guarantees. See: htt...

[104 replies] Last: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42231489 I've been reading quite... (by helios)

by Shervan360

Are these ternary operators the same? [Beginners]

Hello, What are the differences between these? #include <iostream> int main() { int a = 18, b = 44, total = 0, total2 = 0; total +=...

[8 replies] Last: I think some chips have a way to test a single bit but in general, I d... (by jonnin)

by JUANDENT

Making a shared_ptr out of a stack object corrupts the heap!! [General C++ Programming]

Hi, The following code is incorrect: Customer customer = { 0, "John Doe", "johndoe@example.com" }; auto cc = std::make_shared<Customer>(customer);...

[2 replies] Last: Note: std::make_shared<T>()[/code] creates a new heap-allocated insta... (by kigar64551)

by seeplus

C++23 [Lounge]

C++23 has finally been accepted by ISO as the latest C++ standard ISO/IEC 14882:2024 For a useful summary of features see https://www.cppstories.com/2024/cp...

[3 replies] Last: Note that something like for (auto& elem : getVector())[/code]has al... (by Peter87)

by JamieAl

Testing restart functionality in C/C++ [General C++ Programming]

Hello! I am trying to implement "restart" functionality in my code, where if for some reason the code stops (i.e. iterations drop) I can pick up from where I s...

[1 reply] : you will get more help if you put it in a repo where we can see the co... (by jonnin)

by helios

Unpopular opinions (1,2) [Lounge]

The plural of "layoff" is "layoves". Every non-pressurized drink should come in a bag, as it's a much more efficient packaging (assuming it must be disposabl...

[25 replies] Last: Oh, interesting. I should have at least looked up the Wiktionary defin... (by Ganado)

by Dazzer

How to start with audio plugin GUI design? [Beginners]

Hi folks, I'm interested in learning C++ for audio plugin design, but I'm a bit unusual in that i'm not really interested in the audio DSP part, i'm only rea...

[1 reply] : we used to call it RAD (rapid application development) and I am not su... (by jonnin)