The C++ Standard Library Extensions A Tutorial and Reference

Chapter 1. Tuples You cannot conceive of the many without the one. Parmenides PLATO The class template tuple is a generalization of the standard C++ library class template pair. The pair template takes two type...

Chapter 2. Smart Pointers I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I know not where. quot;The Arrow and the Songquot; HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Almost every nontrivial application controls some resource w...

Chapter 3. Container Basics Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one: The shapes a bright container can contain! quot;I Knew a Womanquot; THEODORE ROETHKE The Standard Template Library, more commonly know...

Chapter 4. The array Class Template Even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. The Gospel According to Saint Matthew, 6:29 C-style arrays are tricky to use with STL algorithms. The size of th...

Chapter 5. Unordered Associative Containers The more laws and order are made prominent, The more thieves and robbers there will be. The Way of Lao-tzu LAO-TZU Suppose that you've been asked to write the symbol tab...

Chapter 6. Call Wrapper Basics quot;The name of the song is called 'Haddocks' Eyes.'quot; quot;Oh, that's the name of the song, is it?quot; Alice said, trying to feel interested. quot;No, you don't understand,quot...

Chapter 7. The mem_fn Function Template The conditionings associated with a particular class ...produce habitus, structured structures predisposed to function as structuring structures .... The Logic of Practice PI...

Chapter 8. The reference_wrapper Class Template These are only aliases. Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley, and Layden. Story on Notre Dame football victory over Army GRANTLAND RICE The class templa...

Chapter 9. The function Class Template Form ever follows function. quot;The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered,quot; from Lippincott's Magazine LOUIS HENRI SULLIVAN One of the drawbacks of template progr...

Chapter 10. The bind Function Template One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. The Fellowship of the Ring J.R.R. TOLKIEN Suppose that you have a pair of pointers, first and last, defining a seque...

Chapter 11. Type Traits I am the voice of today, the herald of tomorrow.... I am the leaden army that conquers the worldI am type. The Type Speaks FREDERIC WILLIAM GOUDY The TR1 library has more than 50 class te...

Chapter 12. Numeric Functions Fast is good. Accurate is better. ATTRIBUTED TO WYATT EARP The C standard was revised in 1999 to improve support for fast, robust floating-point computations.[1] This revision came a...

Chapter 13. Random Number Generators The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculation. Theorie Analytique des Probabilities PIERRE-SIMONE LAPLACE, TRANSLATED BY ANGELA PAO A...

Chapter 14. The lt;regexgt; Header Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. Les Miserables VICTOR HUGO Powerful software facilities, too, are often made of a multitude of fibers...

Chapter 15. Regular Expression Grammars When a thought takes ones breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence. Preface to Emily Dickinson's Poems, First Series THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON A regular exp...

Chapter 16. Regular Expression Objects I du believe with all my soul In the gret Press's freedom, To pint the people to the goal An' in the traces lead 'em. quot;The Bigelow Papersquot; JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL All...

Chapter 17. Searching There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. Novum Organum FRANCIS BACON Suppose that you want to scan a text file encoded in HTML and extract all the lines t...

Chapter 18. Search Results Shun those studies in which the work that results dies with the worker. The Notebooks LEONARDO DA VINCI Suppose that you want to scan a text file encoded in HTML and extract all the co...

Chapter 19. Repetitive Searches There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before. O Pioneers! WILLA CATHER Did you spot the problem...

Chapter 20. Formatting and Text Replacement Give this much to the Luftwaffe. When it knocked down our buildings, it didn't replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that. Speech in London, Dec...

Chapter 21. Customizing Regular Expressions quot;When I use a word,quot; Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, quot;it means just what I choose it to meanneither more nor less.quot; Through the Looking-G...

Chapter 22. C Compatibility It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse-races. Pudd'nhead Wilson MARK TWAIN The original C standard was published in 1990[1] and...