A class template provides a specification for generating classes based on parameters. Class templates are generally used to implement containers. A class template is instantiated by passing a given set of types to it as template arguments. Here is an example of a class, MyTemplate, that can store one element of any type and that has just one member function divideBy2, which divides its value by 2.

template <class T>
class MyTemplate {
T element;
public:
MyTemplate (T arg) {element=arg;}
T divideBy2 () {return element/2;}
};

It is also possible to define a different implementation of a template for a specific type. This is called Template Specialization. For the template given above, we find that a different implementation for type char will be more useful, so we write a function printElement to print the char element:

// class template specialization:
template <>
class MyTemplate <char> {
char element;
public:
MyTemplate (char arg) {element=arg;}
char printElement ()
{
return element;
}
};

You are given a main() function which takes a set of inputs. The type of input governs the kind of operation to be performed, i.e. concatenation for strings and addition for int or float. You need to write the class template AddElements which has a function add() for giving the sum of int or float elements. You also need to write a template specialization for the type string with a function concatenate() to concatenate the second string to the first string.