Re: c++ equivalent of java collections

From:
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Erik_Wikstr=F6m?= <Erik-wikstrom@telia.com>
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Date:
Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:41:26 GMT
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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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Erik Wikstr?m

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