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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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Rainer Grimm Rainer Grimm
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Reader Testimonials FREE CHAPTER Introduction 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

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>
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std::priority_queue<int> myPriorityQueue;

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

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