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Modern C++: Efficient and Scalable Application Development

By : Richard Grimes, Marius Bancila
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Modern C++: Efficient and Scalable Application Development

By: Richard Grimes, Marius Bancila

Overview of this book

C++ is one of the most widely used programming languages. It is fast, flexible, and used to solve many programming problems. This Learning Path gives you an in-depth and hands-on experience of working with C++, using the latest recipes and understanding most recent developments. You will explore C++ programming constructs by learning about language structures, functions, and classes, which will help you identify the execution flow through code. You will also understand the importance of the C++ standard library as well as memory allocation for writing better and faster programs. Modern C++: Efficient and Scalable Application Development deals with the challenges faced with advanced C++ programming. You will work through advanced topics such as multithreading, networking, concurrency, lambda expressions, and many more recipes. By the end of this Learning Path, you will have all the skills to become a master C++ programmer. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Beginning C++ Programming by Richard Grimes • Modern C++ Programming Cookbook by Marius Bancila • The Modern C++ Challenge by Marius Bancila
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
12
Math Problems
13
Language Features
14
Strings and Regular Expressions
15
Streams and Filesystems
16
Date and Time
17
Algorithms and Data Structures
Index

Internationalization


The <locale> header contains the classes for localizing how time, dates, and currency are formatted, and also to provide localized rules for string comparisons and ordering.

Note

The C Runtime Library also has global functions to carry out localization. However, it is important in the following discussion that we distinguish between C functions and the C locale. The C locale is the default locale, including the rules for localization, used in C and C++ programs and it can be replaced with a locale for a country or culture. The C Runtime Library provides functions to change the locale, as does the C++ Standard Library.

Since the C++ Standard Library provides classes for localization, this means that you can create more than one object representing a locale. A locale object can be created in a function and can only be used there, or it can be applied globally to a thread and used only by code running on that thread. This is in contrast to the C localization functions...