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Introduction

Destructor

Constructors serve to automatically initialized variables data members at the point of creation. Destructors are complimentary to constructors. They serve to de-initialized objects when they are destroyed.

A destructor may be called either when the object goes out of scope or when it is destroyed explicitly using the delete operator. A destructor, like a constructor has the same name as that of the class, but is prefixed by the tilde (‘~’) symbol. A class can’t have more than one destructor. And a destructor can’t take arguments or specify a return value consider the declaration of a word class as given below.

class word 
{
    private:
    char *str_word;
    public:
    word(char *s)
    {
    str_word=new char[strlen()+1];
    strcpy(str_word, s);
    }
    int getlen()
    {
        return strlen(str_word); 
    }
    Char *getword()
    {
        return str_word; 
    }
    ~word()
    {
    delete str_word;
    }
};

A destructor is normally not explicitly invoked though it can be done as follows:

      word *word1;
      word1->word::~word;

//example on constructors and destructors
#include<iostream.h>
class CRectangle
{
    int *width, *height;
    public:
    CRectangle(int, int);
    ~CRectangle();
    int area()
    {
    return(*width * *height);
    }
};
CRectangle::CRectangle(int a, int b)
{
    width= new int;
    height =new int;
    *width=a;
    *height =b;
}
CRectangle::~CRectangle()
{
    delete width;
    delete height;
}
int main()
{
    CRectangle rect(3, 4), rectb(5, 6);
    cout<<”rect area:”<<rect.area()<<end1;
    cout<<”rectb area:”
}

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