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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

Initializing a range


In the previous recipes, we explored the general standard algorithms for searching in a range and sorting a range. The algorithms library provides many other general algorithms and among them are several that are intended for filling a range with values. In this recipe, you will learn what these algorithms are and how they should be used.

Getting ready

All the examples in this recipe use std::vector. However, like all the general algorithms, the ones we will see in this recipe take iterators to define the bounds of a range and can therefore be used with any standard container, C-like arrays, or custom types representing a sequence that have forward iterators defined.

Except for std::iota(), which is available in the <numeric> header, all the other algorithms are found in the <algorithm> header.

How to do it...

To assign values to a range, use any of the following standard algorithms:

  • std::fill() to assign a value to all the elements of a range; the range is defined...