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The C++ Standard Library - Second Edition

By : Rainer Grimm
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The C++ Standard Library - Second Edition

By: Rainer Grimm

Overview of this book

Standard template library enables programmers to speed up application development using the built-in data structures and algorithms in their codes. The C++ Standard Library is a comprehensive guide to the updated library of classes, algorithms, functions, iterators, and containers and serves as the best reference to the current C++ 17 standard. Starting with the introduction and history of the standard library, this book goes on to demonstrate how quickly you can manipulate various C++ template classes while writing your applications. You'll also learn in detail the four types of STL components. Then you'll discover the best methods to analyze or modify a string. You'll also learn how to make your application communicate with the outside world using input and output streams and how to use the non-owning string objects with regular strings. By the end of this book, you'll be able to take your programming skills to a higher level by leveraging the standard C++ libraries.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Reader Testimonials
8
6. Adaptors for Containers
19
Index

Element Access

The access to the elements of a string str is very convenient, because the string supports random access iterators. You can access with str.front() the first character and with str.back() the last character of the string. With str[n] and str.at(n) you get the n-th element by index.

The following table provides an overview.

Access the elements of the string
Methods Example
str.front() Returns the first character of str.
str.back() Returns the last character of str.
str[n] Returns the n-th character of str. The string boundaries will not be checked.
str.at(n) Returns the n-th character of str. The string boundaries will be checked. If the boundaries are violated a std::out_of_range exception is thrown.
Element access
// stringAccess.cpp
...
#include <string>
...

std::string str= {"0123456789"};
std::cout...