1.9: Accessing Data Members

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The public data members are also accessed in the same way given however the private data members are not allowed to be accessed directly by the object. Accessing a data member depends solely on the access control of that data member.
This access control is given by Access modifiers in C++. There are three access modifiers : public, private and protected.

// C++ program to demonstrate  
// accessing of data members  
#include <bits/stdc++.h> 
using namespace std; 
class Geeks {     

   // Access specifier     
   public:        
      // Data Members        
      string geekname;        

      // Member Functions()        
      void printname()        
      {           
         cout << "Geekname is: " << geekname;
      }
}; 

 
int main()
{
     // Declare an object of class geeks
     Geeks obj1;
     // accessing data member
     obj1.geekname = "Steve Jobs";
     // accessing member function
     obj1.printname();

     return 0; 
}

Output:

Geekname is: Abhi

Adapted from:
"C++ Classes and Objects" by Abhirav Kariya, Geeks for Geeks is licensed under CC BY 4.0