C++ Programming Code Examples

Insert elements. Extends the container by inserting new elements, effectively increasing the container size by the number of elements inserted. Because element keys in a map are unique, the insertion operation checks whether each inserted element has a key equivalent to the one of an element already in the container, and if so, the element is not inserted, returning an iterator to this existing element (if the function returns a value). For a similar container allowing for duplicate elements, see multimap. An alternative way to insert elements in a map is by using member function map::operator[]. Internally, map containers keep all their elements sorted by their key following the criterion specified by its comparison object. The elements are always inserted in its respective position following this ordering. The parameters determine how many elements are inserted and to which values they are initialized: Value to be copied to (or moved as) the inserted element. Member type value_type is the type of the elements in the container, defined in map as pair<const key_type,mapped_type> (see map member types). The signatures taking an argument of type P&& are only called if std::is_constructible<value_type,P&&> is true. If P is instantiated as a reference type, the argument is copied. Hint for the position where the element can be inserted. The function optimizes its insertion time if position points to the element that will follow the inserted element (or to the end, if it would be the last). Notice that this is just a hint and does not force the new element to be inserted at that position within the map container (the elements in a map always follow a specific order depending on their key). Member types iterator and const_iterator are defined in map as bidirectional iterator types that point to elements. Iterators specifying a range of elements. Copies of the elements in the range [first,last) are inserted in the container. Notice that the range includes all the elements between first and last, including the element pointed by first but not the one pointed by last. The function template argument InputIterator shall be an input iterator type that points to elements of a type from which value_type objects can be constructed. An initializer_list object. Copies of these elements are inserted. These objects are automatically constructed from initializer list declarators. Member type value_type is the type of the elements contained in the container, defined in map as pair<const key_type,mapped_type> (see map member types). The single element versions (1) return a pair, with its member pair::first set to an iterator pointing to either the newly inserted element or to the element with an equivalent key in the map. The pair::second element in the pair is set to true if a new element was inserted or false if an equivalent key already existed. The versions with a hint (2) return an iterator pointing to either the newly inserted element or to the element that already had an equivalent key in the map. Member type iterator is a bidirectional iterator type that points to elements. pair is a class template declared in <utility> (see pair). If a single element is inserted, logarithmic in size in general, but amortized constant if a hint is given and the position given is the optimal. If N elements are inserted, Nlog(size+N). Implementations may optimize if the range is already sorted. No changes The container is modified. Concurrently accessing existing elements is safe, although iterating ranges in the container is not. If a single element is to be inserted, there are no changes in the container in case of exception (strong guarantee). Otherwise, the container is guaranteed to end in a valid state (basic guarantee). If allocator_traits::construct is not supported with the appropriate arguments for the element constructions, or if an invalid position is specified, it causes undefined behavior.

#include is a way of including a standard or user-defined file in the program and is mostly written at the beginning of any C/C++ program. This directive is read by the preprocessor and orders it to insert the content of a user-defined or system header file into the following program. These files are mainly imported from an outside source into the current program. The process of importing such files that might be system-defined or user-defined is known as File Inclusion. This type of preprocessor directive tells the compiler to include a file in the source code program. Including using " ": When using the double quotes(" "), the preprocessor access the current directory in which the source "header_file" is located. This type is mainly used to access any header files of the user's program or user-defined files. Including using <>: While importing file using angular brackets(<>), the the preprocessor uses a predetermined directory path to access the file. It is mainly used to access system header files located in the standard system directories. Header File or Standard files: This is a file which contains C/C++ function declarations and macro definitions to be shared between several source files. Functions like the printf(), scanf(), cout, cin and various other input-output or other standard functions are contained within different header files. So to utilise those functions, the users need to import a few header files which define the required functions. User-defined files: These files resembles the header files, except for the fact that they are written and defined by the user itself. This saves the user from writing a particular function multiple times. Once a user-defined file is written, it can be imported anywhere in the program using the #include preprocessor. • In #include directive, comments are not recognized. So in case of #include <a//b>, a//b is treated as filename. • In #include directive, backslash is considered as normal text not escape sequence. So in case of #include <a\nb>, a\nb is treated as filename. • You can use only comment after filename otherwise it will give error.

A program shall contain a global function named main, which is the designated start of the program in hosted environment. main() function is the entry point of any C++ program. It is the point at which execution of program is started. When a C++ program is executed, the execution control goes directly to the main() function. Every C++ program have a main() function. void is a keyword in C++ language, void means nothing, whenever we use void as a function return type then that function nothing return. here main() function no return any value. main is a name of function which is predefined function in C++ library. In place of void we can also use int return type of main() function, at that time main() return integer type value. 1) It cannot be used anywhere in the program a) in particular, it cannot be called recursively b) its address cannot be taken 2) It cannot be predefined and cannot be overloaded: effectively, the name main in the global namespace is reserved for functions (although it can be used to name classes, namespaces, enumerations, and any entity in a non-global namespace, except that a function called "main" cannot be declared with C language linkage in any namespace). 3) It cannot be defined as deleted or (since C++11) declared with C language linkage, constexpr (since C++11), consteval (since C++20), inline, or static. 4) The body of the main function does not need to contain the return statement: if control reaches the end of main without encountering a return statement, the effect is that of executing return 0;. 5) Execution of the return (or the implicit return upon reaching the end of main) is equivalent to first leaving the function normally (which destroys the objects with automatic storage duration) and then calling std::exit with the same argument as the argument of the return. (std::exit then destroys static objects and terminates the program). 6) (since C++14) The return type of the main function cannot be deduced (auto main() {... is not allowed). 7) (since C++20) The main function cannot be a coroutine.

The cin object is used to accept input from the standard input device i.e. keyboard. It is defined in the iostream header file. C++ cin statement is the instance of the class istream and is used to read input from the standard input device which is usually a keyboard. The extraction operator(>>) is used along with the object cin for reading inputs. The extraction operator extracts the data from the object cin which is entered using the keyboard. is the extraction operator. is usually a variable, but can also be an element of containers like arrays, vectors, lists, etc. The "c" in cin refers to "character" and "in" means "input". Hence cin means "character input". The cin object is used along with the extraction operator >> in order to receive a stream of characters. The >> operator can also be used more than once in the same statement to accept multiple inputs. The cin object can also be used with other member functions such as getline(), read(), etc. Some of the commonly used member functions are: • cin.get(char &ch): Reads an input character and stores it in ch. • cin.getline(char *buffer, int length): Reads a stream of characters into the string buffer, It stops when: it has read length-1 characters or when it finds an end-of-line character '\n' or the end of the file eof. • cin.read(char *buffer, int n): Reads n bytes (or until the end of the file) from the stream into the buffer. • cin.ignore(int n): Ignores the next n characters from the input stream. • cin.eof(): Returns a non-zero value if the end of file (eof) is reached. The prototype of cin as defined in the iostream header file is: extern istream cin; The cin object in C++ is an object of class istream. It is associated with the standard C input stream stdin. The cin object is ensured to be initialized during or before the first time an object of type ios_base::Init is constructed. After the cin object is constructed, cin.tie() returns &cout. This means that any formatted input operation on cin forces a call to cout.flush() if any characters are pending for output.

Iterators are just like pointers used to access the container elements. Iterators are one of the four pillars of the Standard Template Library or STL in C++. An iterator is used to point to the memory address of the STL container classes. For better understanding, you can relate them with a pointer, to some extent. Iterators act as a bridge that connects algorithms to STL containers and allows the modifications of the data present inside the container. They allow you to iterate over the container, access and assign the values, and run different operators over them, to get the desired result. • Iterators are used to traverse from one element to another element, a process is known as iterating through the container. • The main advantage of an iterator is to provide a common interface for all the containers type. • Iterators make the algorithm independent of the type of the container used. • Iterators provide a generic approach to navigate through the elements of a container. Operator (*) : The '*' operator returns the element of the current position pointed by the iterator. Operator (++) : The '++' operator increments the iterator by one. Therefore, an iterator points to the next element of the container. Operator (==) and Operator (!=) : Both these operators determine whether the two iterators point to the same position or not. Operator (=) : The '=' operator assigns the iterator. Iterators can be smart pointers which allow to iterate over the complex data structures. A Container provides its iterator type. Therefore, we can say that the iterators have the common interface with different container type. The container classes provide two basic member functions that allow to iterate or move through the elements of a container: begin(): The begin() function returns an iterator pointing to the first element of the container. end(): The end() function returns an iterator pointing to the past-the-last element of the container. Input Iterator: An input iterator is an iterator used to access the elements from the container, but it does not modify the value of a container. Operators used for an input iterator are: Increment operator(++), Equal operator(==), Not equal operator(!=), Dereference operator(*). Output Iterator: An output iterator is an iterator used to modify the value of a container, but it does not read the value from a container. Therefore, we can say that an output iterator is a write-only iterator. Operators used for an output iterator are: Increment operator(++), Assignment operator(=). Forward Iterator: A forward iterator is an iterator used to read and write to a container. It is a multi-pass iterator. Operators used for a Forward iterator are: Increment operator(++), Assignment operator(=), Equal operator(=), Not equal operator(!=). Bidirectional iterator: A bidirectional iterator is an iterator supports all the features of a forward iterator plus it adds one more feature, i.e., decrement operator(--). We can move backward by decrementing an iterator. Operators used for a Bidirectional iterator are: Increment operator(++), Assignment operator(=), Equal operator(=), Not equal operator(!=), Decrement operator(--). Random Access Iterator: A Random Access iterator is an iterator provides random access of an element at an arbitrary location. It has all the features of a bidirectional iterator plus it adds one more feature, i.e., pointer addition and pointer subtraction to provide random access to an element. Following are the disadvantages of an iterator: • If we want to move from one data structure to another at the same time, iterators won't work. • If we want to update the structure which is being iterated, an iterator won?t allow us to do because of the way it stores the position. • If we want to backtrack while processing through a list, the iterator will not work in this case. Following are the advantages of an iterator: • Ease in programming: It is convenient to use iterators rather than using a subscript operator[] to access the elements of a container. If we use subscript operator[] to access the elements, then we need to keep the track of the number of elements added at the runtime, but this would not happen in the case of an iterator. • Code Reusability: A code can be reused if we use iterators. In the above example, if we replace vector with the list, and then the subscript operator[] would not work to access the elements as the list does not support the random access. However, we use iterators to access the elements, then we can also access the list elements. • Dynamic Processing: C++ iterators provide the facility to add or delete the data dynamically.

Consider a situation, when we have two persons with the same name, jhon, in the same class. Whenever we need to differentiate them definitely we would have to use some additional information along with their name, like either the area, if they live in different area or their mother's or father's name, etc. Same situation can arise in your C++ applications. For example, you might be writing some code that has a function called xyz() and there is another library available which is also having same function xyz(). Now the compiler has no way of knowing which version of xyz() function you are referring to within your code. A namespace is designed to overcome this difficulty and is used as additional information to differentiate similar functions, classes, variables etc. with the same name available in different libraries. Using namespace, you can define the context in which names are defined. In essence, a namespace defines a scope. A namespace definition begins with the keyword namespace followed by the namespace name as follows: To call the namespace-enabled version of either function or variable, prepend (::) the namespace name as follows: You can also avoid prepending of namespaces with the using namespace directive. This directive tells the compiler that the subsequent code is making use of names in the specified namespace. A namespace can be defined in several parts and so a namespace is made up of the sum of its separately defined parts. The separate parts of a namespace can be spread over multiple files. So, if one part of the namespace requires a name defined in another file, that name must still be declared. Writing a following namespace definition either defines a new namespace or adds new elements to an existing one: Namespaces can be nested where you can define one namespace inside another name space as follows: • Namespace is a feature added in C++ and not present in C. • A namespace is a declarative region that provides a scope to the identifiers (names of the types, function, variables etc) inside it. • Multiple namespace blocks with the same name are allowed. All declarations within those blocks are declared in the named scope. • Namespace declarations appear only at global scope. • Namespace declarations can be nested within another namespace. • Namespace declarations don't have access specifiers. (Public or private) • No need to give semicolon after the closing brace of definition of namespace. • We can split the definition of namespace over several units.

Return iterator to end. Returns an iterator referring to the past-the-end element in the map container. The past-the-end element is the theoretical element that would follow the last element in the map container. It does not point to any element, and thus shall not be dereferenced. Because the ranges used by functions of the standard library do not include the element pointed by their closing iterator, this function is often used in combination with map::begin to specify a range including all the elements in the container. If the container is empty, this function returns the same as map::begin. This function does not accept any parameter. Function returns an iterator to the past-the-end element in the container. If the map object is const-qualified, the function returns a const_iterator. Otherwise, it returns an iterator. Member types iterator and const_iterator are bidirectional iterator types pointing to elements. Constant No changes The container is accessed (neither the const nor the non-const versions modify the container). No contained elements are accessed by the call, but the iterator returned can be used to access or modify elements. Concurrently accessing or modifying different elements is safe. No-throw guarantee: this member function never throws exceptions. The copy construction or assignment of the returned iterator is also guaranteed to never throw.

In computer programming, we use the if statement to run a block code only when a certain condition is met. An if statement can be followed by an optional else statement, which executes when the boolean expression is false. There are three forms of if...else statements in C++: • if statement, • if...else statement, • if...else if...else statement, The if statement evaluates the condition inside the parentheses ( ). If the condition evaluates to true, the code inside the body of if is executed. If the condition evaluates to false, the code inside the body of if is skipped. The if..else statement evaluates the condition inside the parenthesis. If the condition evaluates true, the code inside the body of if is executed, the code inside the body of else is skipped from execution. If the condition evaluates false, the code inside the body of else is executed, the code inside the body of if is skipped from execution. The if...else statement is used to execute a block of code among two alternatives. However, if we need to make a choice between more than two alternatives, we use the if...else if...else statement. • If condition1 evaluates to true, the code block 1 is executed. • If condition1 evaluates to false, then condition2 is evaluated. • If condition2 is true, the code block 2 is executed. • If condition2 is false, the code block 3 is executed. There can be more than one else if statement but only one if and else statements. In C/C++ if-else-if ladder helps user decide from among multiple options. The C/C++ if statements are executed from the top down. As soon as one of the conditions controlling the if is true, the statement associated with that if is executed, and the rest of the C else-if ladder is bypassed. If none of the conditions is true, then the final else statement will be executed. Working of the if-else-if ladder: 1. Control falls into the if block. 2. The flow jumps to Condition 1. 3. Condition is tested. If Condition yields true, goto Step 4. If Condition yields false, goto Step 5. 4. The present block is executed. Goto Step 7. 5. The flow jumps to Condition 2. If Condition yields true, goto step 4. If Condition yields false, goto Step 6. 6. The flow jumps to Condition 3. If Condition yields true, goto step 4. If Condition yields false, execute else block. Goto Step 7. 7. Exits the if-else-if ladder. • The if else ladder statement in C++ programming language is used to check set of conditions in sequence. • This is useful when we want to selectively executes one code block(out of many) based on certain conditions. • It allows us to check for multiple condition expressions and execute different code blocks for more than two conditions. • A condition expression is tested only when all previous if conditions in if-else ladder is false. • If any of the conditional expression evaluates to true, then it will execute the corresponding code block and exits whole if-else ladder.

In computer programming, loops are used to repeat a block of code. For example, when you are displaying number from 1 to 100 you may want set the value of a variable to 1 and display it 100 times, increasing its value by 1 on each loop iteration. When you know exactly how many times you want to loop through a block of code, use the for loop instead of a while loop. A for loop is a repetition control structure that allows you to efficiently write a loop that needs to execute a specific number of times. initializes variables and is executed only once. if true, the body of for loop is executed, if false, the for loop is terminated. updates the value of initialized variables and again checks the condition. A new range-based for loop was introduced to work with collections such as arrays and vectors.

In C++, pair is defined as a container in a header library <utility> which combines the two data elements having either the same data types or different data types. In general, the pair in C++ is defined as a tuple in Python programming language which also can give the output as a combined result of joining the two items specified by the pair container and it consists of the first element will be first and the second element will be second only it cannot be disturbed in the order or sequence of elements specified and are always accessed by the dot operator followed by the keyword "first" and "second" elements respectively. In C++ the pair is a container in <utility> header and is also a container class in STL (Standard Template Library) which uses "std" namespace so it will be as std::pair template class for demonstrating pair as a tuple. datatype for the first element. datatype for the second element. a name which is used to refer to the pair objects .first and .second elements. Different ways to initialize pair: In C++, pair container behaves like a tuple in Python programming language but a tuple can have a list of items whereas pair can have only two items or elements which can be of different data types or the same datatype as in tuple. The declaration of pair in C++ is done using the keyword "pair" and is a container that is provided from <utility> library. So basically, pair is used for joining two elements or values into one which also allows storing items of different data types or two heterogeneous objects into one single unit. The pair container can store only two elements first element in "first" and can be referenced by "first" only and the second element can be only in "second". We can use operators such as =, !=, = =, >=, <= with pair and also we can swap the one content of one pair with other pair also using the swap() function and there is also a feature where we can create a value pair without declaring the datatypes explicitly using make_pair() function where we need not specify the datatype and write the values directly. • The assignment (=) operator lets us assign the values of one pair to another. • The equality (==) operator returns true if two pairs contain the same values. The inequality (!=) operator returns true if two pairs do not contain the same values. • The less-than (<) and greater-than (>) operators work by only comparing the first values of the pairs being compared. The same can be said about the <= and >= operators.

Get iterator to element. Searches the container for an element with a key equivalent to k and returns an iterator to it if found, otherwise it returns an iterator to map::end. Two keys are considered equivalent if the container's comparison object returns false reflexively (i.e., no matter the order in which the elements are passed as arguments). Another member function, map::count, can be used to just check whether a particular key exists. Key to be searched for. Member type key_type is the type of the keys for the elements in the container, defined in map as an alias of its first template parameter (Key). The function accepts one mandatory parameter key which specifies the key to be searched in the map container. C++ map find() function is used to find an element with the given key value k. If it finds the element then it returns an iterator pointing to the element. Otherwise, it returns an iterator pointing to the end of the map, i.e., map::end(). Function returns an iterator to the element, if an element with specified key is found, or map::end otherwise. If the map object is const-qualified, the function returns a const_iterator. Otherwise, it returns an iterator. Member types iterator and const_iterator are bidirectional iterator types pointing to elements (of type value_type). Notice that value_type in map containers is an alias of pair<const key_type, mapped_type>. Logarithmic in size No changes The container is accessed (neither the const nor the non-const versions modify the container). No mapped values are accessed: concurrently accessing or modifying elements is safe. Strong guarantee: if an exception is thrown, there are no changes in the container.

Maps are associative containers that store elements in a mapped fashion. Each element has a key value and a mapped value. No two mapped values can have the same key values. Maps are part of the C++ STL (Standard Template Library). Maps are the associative containers that store sorted key-value pair, in which each key is unique and it can be inserted or deleted but cannot be altered. Values associated with keys can be changed. The key values are good for sorting and identifying elements uniquely. The mapped values are for storing content associated with the key. The two may differ in types, but the member type combines them via a pair type that combines both. The key data type to be stored in the map. The data type of value to be stored in the map. A comparison class that takes two arguments of the same type bool and returns a value. This argument is optional and the binary predicate less<"key"> is the default value. Type of the allocator object. This argument is optional and the default value is allocator. Maps can easily be created using the following statement: The above form will use to create a map with key of type Key type and value of type value type. One important thing is that key of a map and corresponding values are always inserted as a pair, you cannot insert only key or just a value in a map. • begin: Returns an iterator pointing to the first element in the map. • cbegin: Returns a const iterator pointing to the first element in the map. • end: Returns an iterator pointing to the past-end. • cend: Returns a constant iterator pointing to the past-end. • rbegin: Returns a reverse iterator pointing to the end. • rend: Returns a reverse iterator pointing to the beginning. • crbegin: Returns a constant reverse iterator pointing to the end. • crend: Returns a constant reverse iterator pointing to the beginning. • empty: Returns true if map is empty. • size: Returns the number of elements in the map. • max_size: Returns the maximum size of the map. • operator[]: Retrieve the element with given key. • at: Retrieve the element with given key. • insert: Insert element in the map. • erase: Erase elements from the map. • swap: Exchange the content of the map. • clear: Delete all the elements of the map. • emplace: Construct and insert the new elements into the map. • emplace_hint: Construct and insert new elements into the map by hint. • key_comp: Return a copy of key comparison object. • value_comp: Return a copy of value comparison object. • find: Search for an element with given key. • count: Gets the number of elements matching with given key. • lower_bound: Returns an iterator to lower bound. • upper_bound: Returns an iterator to upper bound. • equal_range: Returns the range of elements matches with given key. • get_allocator Returns an allocator object that is used to construct the map. • operator==: Checks whether the two maps are equal or not. • operator!=: Checks whether the two maps are equal or not. • operator<: Checks whether the first map is less than other or not. • operator<=: Checks whether the first map is less than or equal to other or not. • operator>: Checks whether the first map is greater than other or not. • operator>=: Checks whether the first map is greater than equal to other or not. • swap(): Exchanges the element of two maps.