What is type casting? What is type cast operator?

Q34. What do you mean by type casting? What is type cast operator?

Ans. The explicit conversion of an operand to a specific type is called Type Casting.

Type casting in C++ is done as shown below:

(type) expression

where type is a valid C++ data type to which the conversion is to be done.

For example, to make sure that the expression (x+y/2) evaluates to type float, write it as:

(float)(x+y/2)

casts are often considered as operators. As an operator, a cast is unary and has the same precedence as any other unary operator.