please help It says when creating the object of ArrayCharQueue that I can't because it is abstract and am not understanding why please help

//array based charqueue
// must use abstract base class char queue
// must be dynamically allocated

#include "charqueue.h"
#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib>

class ArrayCharQueue : public CharQueue
{
 public:
  ArrayCharQueue();// constructor
  //copy constructor
  ArrayCharQueue(ArrayCharQueue& souce);
  //destructor
  virtual ~ArrayCharQueue();
 // Methods
  bool isEmpty() ;
  void enqueue(const char newItem);
  char dequeue(void);
  char getFront(void);
 private:
  int arraySize;
  char *array;
  int front;
  int back;

};
// end class ArrayCharQueue()
//end of header


#include "arraycharqueue.h"

using namespace std;

//constructors
ArrayCharQueue::ArrayCharQueue()
{
  front = 0;
  back = 0;
  //count = 0;
  arraySize = 0;
  array = new char[arraySize];
}//end default constructor
ArrayCharQueue::ArrayCharQueue(ArrayCharQueue& souce)
{
	
}
ArrayCharQueue::~ArrayCharQueue()
{
	
}


//methods
bool ArrayCharQueue::isEmpty()
{
  return arraySize  == 0;
}

void ArrayCharQueue::enqueue(const char newItem)
{
  arraySize = arraySize+1;
  char *temp = array;
  array = new char[arraySize];
  for(int i =0;i<arraySize-1;i++)
    {
      array[i] = temp[i];
    }
  delete [] temp;
  array[arraySize-1] = newItem;
  back = arraySize-1;
}
char ArrayCharQueue::dequeue(void)
{
  if(isEmpty())
    {
      cout << "Error Array is Empty\n";
      exit(1);
    }
  char *temp = array;
  char data = array[front];
  arraySize = arraySize-1;
  array = new char[arraySize];
  for(int i=0;i<arraySize;i++)
  {
	  array[i] = temp[i+1];
  }
  delete []temp;
  back = arraySize-1;
  return data;
}
char ArrayCharQueue::getFront()
{
	return array[front];
}

again thanks for any help

You must show the declaration of CharQueue in order to find the mistake. For ArrayCharQueue class to be abstract, it means that the CharQueue is abstract (has a pure method ("= 0;") that is not implemented in the ArrayCharQueue class).

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