Re: Using unique with std::map

From:
Carl Barron <cbarron413@adelphia.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:01:47 CST
Message-ID:
<260320082009256397%cbarron413@adelphia.net>
In article
<d55b24f6-150f-4185-9ee4-b1f246f0d9aa@c65g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>,
Vitaly <vperlin@yahoo.com> wrote:

How can I use unique algorithm with map container?

I can't compile the following neither using STL Port, nor MSVC.8 STL
implementation:

   you can't use mutating sequence algorithms on associative containers,
they would [if they did compile] destroy the invariant[s] of the
associative container.

If you want a collection of pairs with unique first and second values
then perhaps a std::set<std::pair<int,std::string> > is more
appropriate
as it won't store duplicate entries so it would only contain
    pair(1,"aaa") and pair(2,"bbb"). Pair(3,"aaa") would not be inserted.

const char *text[] = {"aaa","bbb","aaa",0};
std::set<std::pair<int,std::string> > s;
const char **p = text;

for(int i=0;*p;++i,++p)
{
    s.insert(std::pair<int,std::string>(i,*p);
}

done.

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