Re: c++ equivalent of java collections
On 2007-06-19 07:27, 3rdshiftcoder wrote:
"Gianni Mariani" <gi3nospam@mariani.ws> wrote in message
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3rdshiftcoder wrote:
hi-
where would someone find things like lists, sets, map classes like a
hash map or tree map. not specifically those but in general is there
a book section that deals with it?
This is referred to as the "standard template library" (STL) and is a
normative part of the C++ standard. Not only does the STL encompass
containers like you have mentioned but also algorithms like sort or find.
There are many books that discuss these.
The "reference" I used often but it is a little dated is the SGI web site
on the STL (I have not looked at them for a while myself - maybe it is
updated).
http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/
SGI has implemented some containers that are not part of the standard so
you need to be a little careful.
The ones you will use almost all the time in modern c++ code are:
basic_string
vector
list
map
sort
The ones I know are not part of the current standard are:
hash_map
rope
... probably others.
The SGI examples are missing a few namespace specifiers. Usually a using
namespace std; somewhere in the example fixes those probs.
>
> Hi Gianni -
>
> that is a very cool link :-)
> i think this is worth checking out !
> the first 2 semesters of coding at school were very basic.
> this is definitely some of the stuff that is missing.
Please, try not to top-post (fixed here), it makes it much harder to
read your posts and there are people who will not reply to people who
top-post which means you might miss out on some valuable information.
Another link to check out would be the following: www.cppreference.com,
which I believe is fully standards compliant and quite easy to navigate.
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