What is protected access specifier in cpp?

Answer 1

Protected members are accessible within the same class and classes derived from it but not other classes.

Answer 2

There are 3 access specifiers for a class/struct/Union in C++. These access specifiers define how the members of the class can be accessed. Of course, any member of a class is accessible within that class(Inside any member function of that same class). Moving ahead to type of access specifiers, they are:

Public - The members declared as Public are accessible from outside the Class through an object of the class.

Protected - The members declared as Protected are accessible from outside the class BUT only in a class derived from it.

Private - These members are only accessible from within the class. No outside Access is allowed. ok

Answer 3

Protected is similar to private as anything outside the class cannot access it, but private variables & methods cannot be inherited but protected can be inherited by the subclass.

Answer 4

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