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Access Specifiers

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Explanation of

private ,protected & public


access modifier / Access
Specifiers / Visibility Modes
What are access
specifiers / Visibility Labels
• Access modifiers are used to implement an important feature of Object Oriented
Programming known as Data Hiding.

• Access modifiers or Access Specifiers in a class are used to set the accessibility of
the class members. That is, it sets some restrictions on the class members not to
get directly accessed by the outside functions.

• There are 3 types of access modifiers available in C++:

1. Private

2. Protected

3. Public

Note: If we do not specify any access modifiers for the members inside the class then
by default the access modifier for the members will be Private.
Private
• By private we mean that members can be accessed only from within the
class i.e member data can be accessed by the member function.

• The private data members are not accessible to the outside world (i.e
outside the class)

• By default members of a class are private.

• Private members are not inheritable.

• They are not allowed to be accessed directly by any object or function


outside the class.

• Only the member functions or the friend functions are allowed to access
the private data members of a class.
Protected

• The members which are declared as protected ,can only


be accessed by member functions and friend function of
that class.

• Protected members are similar to private members ,the


only difference is that protected members are inheritable .
Public

• The members which are declared as public can be


accessed from out side classes also.

• The data members and member functions declared public


can be accessed by other classes too.

• The public members of a class can be accessed from


anywhere in the program using the direct member access
operator (.) with the object of that class.
Example
class Student

int rollno;

float marks;

public:

void getdata();

void display();

};

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