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C++ Crash Course
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C++ Crash Course

by Josh Lospinoso
September 2019
Intermediate to advanced
792 pages
19h 42m
English
No Starch Press
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14ITERATORS

Say “friend” and enter.—J.R.R. Tolkein, The Lord of the Rings

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Iterators are the STL component that provides the interface between containers and algorithms to manipulate them. An iterator is an interface to a type that knows how to traverse a particular sequence and exposes simple, pointer-like operations to elements.

Every iterator supports at least the following operations:

  • Access the current element (operator*) for reading and/or writing
  • Go to the next element (operator++)
  • Copy construct

Iterators are categorized based on which additional operations they support. These categories determine which algorithms are available and what ...

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