Re: STL map and char * problems
On 19 Aug., 23:57, Digital Puer <digital_p...@hotmail.com> wrote:
I am having a problem with the STL map and char *.
I'm on Linux and am using g++ 4.1.2.
I am using two STL maps:
1. map<char *, int>
2. map<string, int>
For some reason, when I insert the same char strings and
then iterate over them, the map from (1) will not print the
keys in the expected lexical (alphabetical) order,
Of course not. Why should it? The less than operator for pointers just
compares the addresses.
map<char *, int> keyCountsChar;
keyCountsChar["bbtman"] = 1;
keyCountsChar["batman"] = 1;
keyCountsChar["aorta"] = 1;
keyCountsChar["dude"] = 1;
Even without additional compiler switches you should have seen a big
fat warning here about conversions of string literals (const char[])
to pointers to non-const char.
I would like to use
the map with the char * and still iterate in lexical order.
Why not "char const*"? As for sorting: you can use your own comparator
objekt. Checkout the documentation of your standard library on how to
do that. Hint: std::map takes 4 template parameters. The 3rd one is
the type of the comparator which defaults to std::less<Key>.
Cheers!
SG
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