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Solidity Programming Essentials. - Second Edition

You're reading from  Solidity Programming Essentials. - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Jun 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803231181
Pages 412 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Author (1):
Ritesh Modi Ritesh Modi
Profile icon Ritesh Modi

Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: The Fundamentals of Solidity and Ethereum
2. Chapter 1: An Introduction to Blockchain, Ethereum, and Smart Contracts 3. Chapter 2: Installing Ethereum and Solidity 4. Chapter 3: Introducing Solidity 5. Chapter 4: Global Variables and Functions 6. Chapter 5: Expressions and Control Structures 7. Part 2: Writing Robust Smart Contracts
8. Chapter 6: Writing Smart Contracts 9. Chapter 7: Solidity Functions, Modifiers, and Fallbacks 10. Chapter 8: Exceptions, Events, and Logging 11. Chapter 9: Basics of Truffle and Unit Testing 12. Chapter 10: Debugging Contracts 13. Part 3: Advanced Smart Contracts
14. Chapter 11: Assembly Programming 15. Chapter 12: Upgradable Smart Contracts 16. Chapter 13: Writing Secure Contracts 17. Chapter 14: Writing Token Contracts 18. Chapter 15: Solidity Design Patterns 19. Assessments 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Address-related functions

Chapter 3, Introducing Solidity focused on introducing major data types in Solidity, including the ubiquitous address type. This is probably one of the most used data types in smart contracts. Address types provide multiple methods, which were not discussed in Chapter 3, because of their close association with contracts and functions. It is time to introduce all methods and properties supported by the address type.

The address data type provides five functions and a single property. The only property provided by address is the balance property, which provides the balance available in an account (contract or individual) in wei denomination, as shown in the following code snippet:

<<account>>.balance ;

It is important to note the preceding code should be modified while getting the balance from the contract address, as shown next. this is a special keyword in Solidity and refers to the current contract. It can only be used within a contract...

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