Re: STL set/map w.r.t const char*

From:
James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 6 May 2008 05:28:54 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<b19a86fb-7f7c-4edc-968a-a0d3e45eca4a@e53g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>
On May 6, 11:58 am, Ian Collins <ian-n...@hotmail.com> wrote:

S S wrote:

I have a very basic question, but it's a good one. Below is
the code fragment.

struct ltstr
{
  bool operator()(const char* s1, const char* s2) const
  {
    return strcmp(s1, s2) < 0;
  }
};

int main()
{
  const int N = 6;
  const char* a[N] = {"isomer", "ephemeral", "prosaic",
                      "nugatory", "artichoke", "serif"};
  set<const char*, ltstr> A(a, a + N);
  if (A.find("ephemeral") != A.end())
    cout << "Found";
  else
    cout << "Not found";
  return 0;
}

Output will be -> "Found"
My question is , Why?

How it is able to compare a const char* with another const char* to
find that value? I did not specify any equality operator? I just
mentioned strcmp(s1, s2) < 0
which means, when strcmp(s1, s2) == 0 (in case of match)
it will return false. So how set/map are able to find the const char*
value?


Given an ordered set, A < B < C and a search item X,

if (X < C) and !(B < X) then X is equivalent to B.


The issue in std::set is a bit more complicated, because the
domain may include elements which are not members of std::set.
Basically, set<>::find first locates an element i such that for
all previous elements j, j < x, and i for i, !(i < x) (which
implies that the same holds for all following elements, of
course). Having found this i, if !(x < i) determines whether
the elements are equivalent or not: if !(i < x) && !(x < i), the
elements are considered to be equivalent.

Note the "considered to be". You can easily define an operator<
which is inconsistent with ==. (He has, in fact: his ltstr is
inconsistent with == over char const*. Of course, if he were
also interested in ==, he'd define an eqstr, which returned
strcmp(s1, s2) == 0.)

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