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The Modern C++ Challenge

You're reading from The Modern C++ Challenge Become an expert programmer by solving real-world problems

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788993869

Length 328 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

HTTP

Concepts

Programming Language

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

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Contributors

Preface

1. Math Problems FREE CHAPTER

2. Language Features

3. Strings and Regular Expressions

4. Streams and Filesystems

5. Date and Time

6. Algorithms and Data Structures

7. Concurrency

8. Design Patterns

9. Data Serialization

10. Archives, Images, and Databases

11. Cryptography

12. Networking and Services

1. Bibliography

2. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Index

Problems

79. Finding files in a ZIP archive

Write a program that can search for and print all the files in a ZIP archive whose name matches a user-provided regular expression (for instance, use ^.*\.jpg$ to find all files with the extension .jpg).

80. Compressing and decompressing files to/from a ZIP archive

Write a program that can do the following:

Compress either a file or the contents of a user-specified directory, recursively, to a ZIP archive
Decompress the contents of a ZIP archive to a user-specified destination directory

81. Compressing and decompressing files to/from a ZIP archive with a password

Write a program that can do the following:

Compress either a file or the contents of a user-specified directory, recursively, to a password-protected ZIP archive
Decompress the content of a password-protected ZIP archive to a user-specified destination directory

82. Creating a PNG that represents a national flag

Write a program that generates a PNG file that represents the national flag of Romania...

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