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The C++ Standard Library

You're reading from   The C++ Standard Library What every professional C++ programmer should know about the C++ standard library.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2019
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ISBN-13 9781838981129
Length 251 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Reader Testimonials Introduction FREE CHAPTER 1. The Standard Library 2. Utilities 3. Interface of All Containers 4. Sequential Containers 5. Associative Container 6. Adaptors for Containers 7. Iterators 8. Callable Units 9. Algorithms 10. Numeric 11. Strings 12. String Views 13. Regular Expressions 14. Input and Output Streams 15. Filesystem library 16. Multithreading Index

Pairs

With std::pair, you can build pairs of arbitrary types. The class template std::pair needs the header <utility>. std::pair has a default, copy and move constructor. Pair objects can be swapped: std::swap(pair1, pair2).

Pairs will often be used in the C++ library. For example, the function std::max returns its result as a pair, the associative container std::map, std::unordered_map, std::multimap and std::unordered_multimap manage their key/value association in pairs.

To get the elements of a pair p, you can either access it directly or via an index. So, with p.first or std::get<0>(p) you get the first, with p.second or `std::get<1>(p) you get the second element of the pair.

Pairs support the comparison operators ==, !=, <, >, <= and >=. If you compare two pairs for identity, at first the members pair1.first and pair2.first will be compared and then pair1.second and pair2.second. The same strategy holds for the other comparison operators.

std::make_pair...

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