August 2012
Intermediate to advanced
976 pages
30h 17m
English
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Contents
Section 11.1 Using an Associative Container
Section 11.2 Overview of the Associative Containers
Section 11.3 Operations on Associative Containers
Section 11.4 The Unordered Containers
Associative and sequential containers differ from one another in a fundamental way: Elements in an associative container are stored and retrieved by a key. In contrast, elements in a sequential container are stored and accessed sequentially by their position in the container.
Although the associative containers share much of the behavior of the sequential containers, they differ from the sequential containers in ways that reflect the use of keys.
Associative containers support efficient lookup and retrieval by a key. The two ...
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