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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

Input and Output

A string can read from an input stream via >> and write to an output stream via <<.

The global function getline empowers you to read from an input stream line by line until the end-of-file character.

There are four variations of the getline function available. The first two arguments are the input stream is and the string line holding the line read. Optionally you can specify a special line separator. The function returns by reference the input stream.

istream& getline (istream& is, string& line, char delim);
istream& getline (istream&& is, string& line, char delim);
istream& getline (istream& is, string& line);
istream& getline (istream&& is, string& line);

getline consumes the whole line including empty spaces. Only the line separator is ignored. The function needs the header <string>.

Input and output with strings
// stringInputOutput.cpp 
...
#include <string>
...

std...