What is operator overloading?

       Operator Overloading is a very essential element to perform the operations on user-defined data types. By operator overloading we can modify the default meaning to the operators like +, -, *, /, <=, etc. 

  For example :

    The following code is for adding two complex number using operator overloading.


class complex
private:
 float r, i;
 public: 
complex(float r, float i)
this->r=r; 
this->i=i;
 }
 complex()
{
void displaydata()
cout<<”real part = “<<r<<endl;
 cout<<”imaginary part = “<<i<<endl;
 }
 complex operator+(complex c)
return complex(r+c.r, i+c.i);
 }
 }; 
int main()
complex a(2,3); 
complex b(3,4); 
complex c=a+b; 
c.displaydata(); 
return 0; 
}

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