
C++ Course Part 12: Working with Strings, String Views, Text Files, CSV Files, and Regular Expressions
Course Description
In this section of the C++ course, you'll dive deep into essential tools and techniques for managing text and data within your programs. You'll begin by mastering strings and string views, which are fundamental for working with sequences of characters. Understanding how to efficiently manipulate strings will allow you to handle a wide variety of text processing tasks, such as parsing, formatting, and modifying strings on the fly.
Next, you'll learn how to work with text files and CSV (Comma-Separated Values) files. These are common data formats for storing and exchanging information. You'll explore techniques for reading from and writing to these files, as well as how to parse CSV files efficiently for structured data storage and retrieval.
Additionally, this section introduces regular expressions (regex), a powerful tool for pattern matching and text manipulation. You'll discover how to use regular expressions in C++ to find, replace, and validate strings based on complex patterns. Regular expressions are essential for tasks like input validation, searching logs, and performing sophisticated string transformations.
By the end of this lesson, you'll have the practical skills needed to handle and process various types of text and data in your C++ programs. You'll be able to parse and manipulate text files, work with CSV data, and apply regular expressions to simplify complex string operations. These skills will make your programs more flexible, powerful, and capable of handling a wide range of data-processing challenges.
Course Curriculum
- 001. Lesson 12 Overview: Exception Handling and an Introduction to Contracts
- 002. Exception Handling: Control Flow and Error Management
- 003. Creating a Catch Handler for DivideByZero Exceptions
- 004. Exception Safety and the Use of noexcept in C++
- 005. Re-throwing Exceptions in C++
- 006. Understanding Stack Unwinding and Uncaught Exceptions
- 007. Determining When to Use Exception Handling in C++
- 008. Using the assert Macro in C++
- 009. Implementing a Fail-Fast Approach in C++
- 010. Managing Constructors, Destructors, and Exceptions in C++
- 011. Throwing Exceptions Within Constructors in C++
- 012. Handling Exceptions in Constructors Using Function Try Blocks in C++
- 013. Exception Handling in Destructors: Revisiting noexcept(false) in C++
- 014. Handling New Failures in C++
- 015. Throwing bad_alloc on Memory Allocation Failure with new