Casting

• A cast is an operator that is specified by a type name in parentheses

• It is placed in front of the value to be converted

• The following example truncates the fractional part of the floating point value in money and stores the integer portion in dollars

dollars = (int) money;

• The value in money is not changed

• If a conversion is possible, it can be done through a cast

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