Re: map with pair as key

From:
"Thomas J. Gritzan" <Phygon_ANTISPAM@gmx.de>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 20 Jun 2006 21:08:11 +0200
Message-ID:
<e79h2g$c8c$1@newsreader2.netcologne.de>
kietzi@web.de schrieb:

Hello world,
I was wondering whether it would be possible to create a map which uses
a pair of ints as key and a float as value. I have used maps with const
char*[] as key, but have so far not been successful to use a version
which uses pairs as keys.


It is possible, I use something like this:
std::map<std::pair<std::pair<int,int>,int>, some_value_type>

For instance, I would like to set up the map as follows:

struct eqstr {
    bool operator()(pair<int,int> s1, pair<int,int> s2) const{
        return ((s1.first==s2.first) && (s1.second==s2.second));
    }
};


Your compare function should be true, when s1 is less than s2, not when
equal. std::pair<> overloads operator<, so there is no need for a custom
compare functor.

std::map<std::pair<int,int>*, float, hash<const char*>, eqstr>
connections;


1. Why do you have a pointer to pair as key? A value would do it.
Otherwise your functor would be called with pointers.
2. The compare functor should be the 3rd template parameter.
3. What is hash<> and why do you use it here?
4. "Unforunately, this does not work." does not help us. Copy&Paste the
error messages. Say, *what* went wrong, not *that* something went wrong.

Thomas

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