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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)
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Reader Testimonials
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6. Adaptors for Containers
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Index

Access

To access the elements of a container, you can use an iterator. If you use a begin and end iterator, you have a range, which you can further process. For a container cont, you get with cont.begin() the begin iterator and with cont.end() the end iterator, which defines a half-open range. It is half-open because the begin iterator belongs to the range, the end iterator refers to a position past the range. With the iterator pair cont.begin() and cont.end() you can modify the elements.

Creation and deletion of a container
Iterator Description
cont.begin() and cont.end() Pair of iterators to iterate forward.
cont.cbegin() and cont.cend() Pair of iterators to iterate const forward.
cont.rbegin() and cont.rend() Pair of iterators to iterate backward.
cont.crbegin() and cont.crend() Pair of iterators to iterate const backward.

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