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This Pointer in C++

The this pointer in C++ refers to the current object and is passed implicitly as a hidden argument to member functions. It holds the memory address of the current object. The this pointer cannot be used in static member functions since they can be called without an object. In constructors where the argument names are the same as data member names, the this pointer must be used to differentiate the local arguments from the class data members and properly initialize the object. In the example code, constructor 3 uses the this pointer to properly initialize the object by assigning the constructor argument values to the class data members.

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This Pointer in C++

The this pointer in C++ refers to the current object and is passed implicitly as a hidden argument to member functions. It holds the memory address of the current object. The this pointer cannot be used in static member functions since they can be called without an object. In constructors where the argument names are the same as data member names, the this pointer must be used to differentiate the local arguments from the class data members and properly initialize the object. In the example code, constructor 3 uses the this pointer to properly initialize the object by assigning the constructor argument values to the class data members.

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C++ This Pointer

C++ provides a keyword 'this', which represents the current object and passed as a hidden
argument to all member functions.

The this pointer is a constant pointer that holds the memory address of the current object. The
this pointer is not available in static member functions as static member functions can be called
without any object. static member functions can be called with class name.

Example of this pointer

#include<iostream.h>
#include<conio.h>
#include<string.h>

class Student
{

int Roll;
char Name[25];
float Marks;

public:

Student(int R,float Mks,char Nm[]) //Constructor 1


{
Roll = R;
strcpy(Name,Nm);
Marks = Mks;
}

Student(char Name[],float Marks,int Roll) //Constructor 2


{
Roll = Roll;
strcpy(Name,Name);
Marks = Marks;
}

Student(int Roll,char Name[],float Marks) //Constructor 3


{
this->Roll = Roll;
strcpy(this->Name,Name);
this->Marks = Marks;
}

void Display()
{
cout<<"\n\tRoll : "<<Roll;
cout<<"\n\tName : "<<Name;
cout<<"\n\tMarks : "<<Marks;
}
};
void main()
{

Student S1(1,89.63,"Sumit");
Student S2("Kumar",78.53,2);
Student S3(3,"Gaurav",68.94);

cout<<"\n\n\tDetails of Student 1 : ";


S1.Display();

cout<<"\n\n\tDetails of Student 2 : ";


S2.Display();

cout<<"\n\n\tDetails of Student 3 : ";


S3.Display();

Output :

Details of Student 1 :
Roll : 1
Name : Sumit
Marks : 89.63

Details of Student 2 :
Roll : 31883
Name : ?&;6•#?#?6•#N$?%_5$?
Marks : 1.07643e+24

Details of Student 3 :
Roll : 3
Name : Gaurav
Marks : 68.94

In constructor 1,variables declared in argument list different from variables declared as class data
members. When compiler doesn't find Roll, Name, Marks as local variable, then, it will find
Roll, Name, Marks in class scope and assign values to them.

But Constructor 2 will not initialize class data members. When we pass values to constructor 2, it
will initialize values to itself local variables b'coz variables declared in argument list and variable
declared as data members are of same name.

In this situation, we use 'this' pointer to differentiate local variable and class data members as
shown in constructor 3.

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