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Laboratory 2: Class creation and string manipulation

• Topics to be explained by your TA.
• Creating classes in C++
• *.cpp and *.h files
• constructors / destructors
• private and public elements
• The string class
• #include <string>
• string operations (getline, substr, find, length, size)
• reading from a file with fixed length fields

YOUR TASK

• Download the following files into an empty directory.
• lab2.cpp
• students.dat
• Create an empty project (Lab2) and include the downloaded files in it.
• Check out the Lab2.cpp file.
• You will see that this c++ program uses a class names student.
• Write both the header(student.h) and the implementation(student.cpp) for this class student with the following specification:
• Private attributes
            - long int number;              // the student's id
            - string   name;                // the student's name
• Public operations
            - Student()                     // constructor
            - virtual ~Student()            // destructor
            - long int getNumber()          // get the name
            - void setNumber(long int)      // set the name
            - string getName()              // get the number
            - void setName(string)          // set the number

• Include these files (student.h and student.cpp) in the project Lab2.
• Complete the method void readStudent(istream& input, Student& s) inside lab2.cpp. This method should :
• read a line from the input parameter and store it in a string
• extract the name and number of the student from this string
• set such name and number for student s
• Compile and run the program above using Microsoft Visual Studio C++ .NET
• Use the file students.dat as the input file
• This file has a number of lines, each one storing a student where the first 7 digits are the student number and the next 21 the student name:
• 9999999XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX