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C++20 STL Cookbook

You're reading from   C++20 STL Cookbook Leverage the latest features of the STL to solve real-world problems

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803248714
Length 450 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chaper 1: New C++20 Features 2. Chapter 2: General STL Features FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: STL Containers 4. Chapter 4: Compatible Iterators 5. Chapter 5: Lambda Expressions 6. Chapter 6: STL Algorithms 7. Chapter 7: Strings, Streams, and Formatting 8. Chapter 8: Utility Classes 9. Chapter 9: Concurrency and Parallelism 10. Chapter 10: Using the File System 11. Chapter 11: A Few More Ideas 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Convert numbers to words

Over the course of my career, I've used a lot of programming languages. When learning a new language, I like to have a project to work on that exposes me to the nuances of the language. The numwords class is one of my favorite exercises for this purpose. I have written it in dozens of languages over the years, including several times in C and C++.

numwords is a class that spells out a number in words. It can be useful for banking and accounting applications. It looks like this in use:

int main() {
    bw::numword nw{};
    uint64_t n;
    nw = 3; bw::print("n is {}, {}\n", nw.getnum(), nw);
    nw = 47; bw::print("n is {}, {}\n", nw.getnum(), nw);
    n = 100073; bw::print("n is {}, {}\n", n, 
      bw::numword{n});
    n = 1000000001; bw::print("n is {}, {}\n&quot...
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