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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

Priority Queue

The std::priority_queue is a reduced std::queue. It needs the header <queue>.

The difference to the std::queue is, that their biggest element is always at the top of the priority queue. std::priority_queue pri uses by default the comparison operator std::less. Similar to std::queue, pri.push(e) inserts a new element e into the priority queue. pri.pop() removes the first element of the pri, but does that with logarithmic complexity. With pri.top() you can reference the first element in the priority queue, which is the greatest one. The std::priority_queue knows its size, but didn’t support the comparison operator on their instances.

std::priority_queue
// priorityQueue.cpp 
...
#include <queue>
...
std::priority_queue<int> myPriorityQueue;

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

myPriorityQueue.push(3);
myPriorityQueue.push...