Unary Operators Overloading in C++

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Unary Operators Overloading in C++
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Vinay Khatri
Last updated on October 6, 2024

    Unary operators are those special symbols that can operate on a unary or single operand, for instance, ++(increment), --(decrement) and ! (not) operators. As we have already discussed in the Operator overloading rules that we can only redefine the operator task for the user-defined class-based object so here the example itself using a class and its object to perform the operator overloading implementation. Example

    #include <iostream>
    #include<math.h>
    using namespace std;
    
    class Displacement
    {
       private :
          int x;
    
       public:
            Displacement(int initialize) //counstructor
               {
                    x=initialize;
                    cout<<"you have created an object which need to displace 10 unit";
                    cout<<endl;
              }            
          void operator--() //operator overloading for -- operator
              {
                    x-=1;
                   cout<<"1 unit has been deducted from the Displacement now final displacement is: "<<x;
                   cout<<endl;
             }
    
         void operator++()   //operator overloading for ++ operator
            {
                  x+=1;
                  cout<<"1 unit has been added to the Displacement and final Displacement is: "<<x;
                  cout<<endl;
            }
    
        void operator!()
           {
                  if(x>0){
                      x = -x;
                      cout<<"The the direction of Displacement has been changed final displacement is: "<<x;
                      cout<<endl;
                        }
                 else{
                     x= abs(x);           
                     cout<<"The direction of Displacement has been changed final displacement is: "<<x;
                     cout<<endl;
                    }
           }
    };
    int main()
    { 
         Displacement d(10); // create an object
         ++d;       // prefix increment operator on class object
        --d;         //  prefix decrement operator on class object
        !d;                          // not operator on class object
        return 0;
    }

    Output

    you have created an object which need to displace 10 unit
    1 unit has been added to the Displacement and final Displacement is: 11
    1 unit has been deducted from the Displacement now final displacement is: 10
    The direction of Displacement has been changed final displacement is: -10

    Behind the code In this above example, we have created 3 Operator Overloading functions, which redefine the task for ++, -- and ! operators. So when we apply these operators on the Displacement class object d the corresponding function gets invoked, Displacement d(10); this statement invoked the Class constructor method or member function Displacement(int initialize) . ++d; this statement invoked the void operator++() member function. --d; this statement invoked the void operator--() member function. And !d; this statement invoked the void operator!() member function. Note: In unary operator overloading, we do not pass any argument in the operator overloading function because the operator works on a single operand which would be the class object itself. People are also reading:

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