Source of ListingC3-4.cpp

Structures and functions

  1: //  Created by Frank M. Carrano and Timothy M. Henry.
  2: //  Copyright (c) 2017 Pearson Education, Hoboken, New Jersey.

  4: // Listing C3-4

  6:    // Create and initialize an array of boxes
  7:    PlainBox<std::string> myBoxes[5];               // Array of PlainBox objects
  8:    myBoxes[0] = PlainBox<std::string>("ring");
  9:    myBoxes[1] = PlainBox<std::string>("hat");
 10:    myBoxes[2] = PlainBox<std::string>("shirt");
 11:    myBoxes[3] = PlainBox<std::string>("sock");
 12:    myBoxes[4] = PlainBox<std::string>("shoe");
 13:    PlainBox<std::string> foundBox;
 14:    
 15:    // Try to find a box containing glasses
 16:    try
 17:    {
 18:       foundBox = findBox(myBoxes, 5, "glasses");
 19:    }
 20:    catch(std::logic_error logErr)
 21:    {
 22:       std::cout << logErr.what() << std::endl;     // Display error message
 23:       foundBox = PlainBox<std::string>("nothing"); // Fix problem
 24:    } // end try-catch
 25:    // Because we catch the exception and fix the problem, the following
 26:    // statement should work even if the target is not found
 27:    std::cout << foundBox.getItem() << std::endl;