Source of main.cpp

Structures and functions

  1: //  Created by Frank M. Carrano and Tim Henry.
  2: //  Copyright (c) 2013 __Pearson Education__. All rights reserved.

  4: int main()
  5: {
  6:    // Listing C3-4
  7:    // Create and initialize an array of boxes
  8:    PlainBox<string> myBoxes[5]; // Array of PlainBox objects
  9:    myBoxes[0] = PlainBox<string>("ring");
 10:    myBoxes[1] = PlainBox<string>("hat");
 11:    myBoxes[2] = PlainBox<string>("shirt");
 12:    myBoxes[3] = PlainBox<string>("sock");
 13:    myBoxes[4] = PlainBox<string>("shoe");
 14:    PlainBox<string> foundBox;

 16:    // Try to find a box containing glasses
 17:    try
 18:    {
 19:       foundBox = findBox(myBoxes, 5, "glasses");
 20:    }
 21:    catch(logic_error logErr)
 22:    {
 23:       cout << logErr.what() << endl;          // Display error message to user
 24:       foundBox = PlainBox<string>("nothing"); // Fix problem
 25:    } // end try-catch
 26:    // Because we catch the exception and fix the problem, the following
 27:    // statement should work even if the target is not found
 28:    cout << foundBox.getItem();

 30:    return 0;
 31: }