Tag: RAII, resource management, C++

RAII stands for Resource Acquisition Is Initialization. It manages resource lifetimes by tying resource management to object lifetime. Resources are acquired in the constructor and released in the destructor.

Example of RAII:

#include 

class FileManager {
    FILE* file;
public:
    FileManager(const char* filename) {
        file = fopen(filename, "w");
    }
    ~FileManager() {
        if (file) fclose(file);
    }
};

int main() {
    FileManager fm("example.txt");
    // File is automatically closed when fm goes out of scope
    return 0;
}