Re: any idear?

From:
Hill <zhubicen@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:13:12 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
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On 10=D4 17=C8=D5, =CF =CE=E72=CA=B108=B7=D6, Kai-Uwe Bux <jkherci...@g=
mx.net> wrote:

Hill wrote:

I want a class Table which saves one list of Pair<int,std::string>.
And I want that it has following behaviour:

Table t;//now t is empty
try{
    int i = t["me"];// I want this call to an empty table will throw =

a

exception [case 1]
}
catch(...){
   std::cout << "It's a empty table,bad operator" << std::endl;
    t["me"] = 0;//and i hope this call can work well [case 2]
}


First, a clarification about the specs: what about

 int i = t["here"];

where t is not empty but no entry for "here" is to be found?

Could some one tell me how to define this class Table?
How to define operator for case 1 and case 2?

class Table
{
public:
    class Bad_op{};
    struct Pair
    {
        int data;
        std::string str;
    };
    Table(const Table& table);
    Table();
    ~Table();
    Table& operator= (const Table& table);
    //int& operator[](const std::string& str);???????
    //nst int& operator[](const std::string& str)const;???????
private:
    std::vector<Pair> m_Vec;
};


Why a vector of pairs? It seems that all you need is a thin wrapper aroun=

d

std::map< std::string, int >.

Best

Kai-Uwe Bux- =D2=FE=B2=D8=B1=BB=D2=FD=D3=C3=CE=C4=D7=D6 -

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Yes , When i say "empty" , i mean the table has a emplty list.
It's just a exercise. Not realistic class.

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