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Advantage of Functions in C

Functions in C++ allow code to be reused and optimized. There are two types of functions - library functions defined in header files, and user-defined functions created by the programmer. A function is declared with a return type, name, and data types for any parameters. For example, a function void func() is defined to increment and print a static variable i and a local variable j to demonstrate how their values are treated differently each time the function is called.

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Advantage of Functions in C

Functions in C++ allow code to be reused and optimized. There are two types of functions - library functions defined in header files, and user-defined functions created by the programmer. A function is declared with a return type, name, and data types for any parameters. For example, a function void func() is defined to increment and print a static variable i and a local variable j to demonstrate how their values are treated differently each time the function is called.

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C++ Functions

The function in C++ language is also known as procedure or subroutine in other


programming languages.

To perform any task, we can create function. A function can be called many times. It
provides modularity and code reusability.

Advantage of functions in C
There are many advantages of functions.

1) Code Reusability

By creating functions in C++, you can call it many times. So we don't need to write the
same code again and again.

2) Code optimization

It makes the code optimized, we don't need to write much code.

Suppose, you have to check 3 numbers (531, 883 and 781) whether it is prime number or
not. Without using function, you need to write the prime number logic 3 times. So, there is
repetition of code.

But if you use functions, you need to write the logic only once and you can reuse it several
times.

Types of Functions
There are two types of functions in C programming:

1. Library Functions: are the functions which are declared in the C++ header files such as
ceil(x), cos(x), exp(x), etc.

2. User-defined functions: are the functions which are created by the C++ programmer,
so that he/she can use it many times. It reduces complexity of a big program and optimizes
the code.
Declaration of a function
The syntax of creating function in C++ language is given below:

1. return_type function_name(data_type parameter...)


2. {
3. //code to be executed
4. }

C++ Function Example


Let's see the simple example of C++ function.

1. #include <iostream>
2. using namespace std;
3. void func() {
4. static int i=0; //static variable
5. int j=0; //local variable
6. i++;
7. j++;
8. cout<<"i=" << i<<" and j=" <<j<<endl;
9. }
10. int main()
11. {
12. func();
13. func();
14. func();
15. }

Output:

i= 1 and j= 1
i= 2 and j= 1
i= 3 and j= 1

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