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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

Queue

The std::queue follows the FIFO principle (First In First Out). The queue que, which needs the header <queue>, has four special methods.

With que.push(e) you can insert an element e at the end of the queue and remove the first element from the queue with que.pop(). que.back() enables you to refer to the last element in the que, que.front() to the first element in the que. std::queue has similar characteristics as std::stack. So you can compare std::queue instances and get their sizes. The operations of the queue have constant complexity.

std::queue
// queue.cpp 
...
#include <queue>
...
std::queue<int> myQueue;

std::cout << myQueue.empty() << std::endl;    // true
std::cout << myQueue.size() << std::endl;     // 0

myQueue.push(1);
myQueue.push(2);
myQueue.push(3);
std::cout << myQueue.back() << std::endl;     // 3
std::cout << myQueue.front() << std::endl;    // 1

while (!myQueue.empty()){
...