Exploring C++20: The Programmer's Introduction to C++

© Ray Lischner 2020

R. LischnerExploring C++20https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5961-0_47

47. Ranges, Views, and Adaptors

Ray Lischner¹ 

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Ellicott City, MD, USA

 

From early in this book, I have talked about “ranges” with little more than a vague description of what a range truly is. In part because ranges are defined using fairly advanced features of C++ that I haven’t covered yet, and in part because the way C++ uses ranges, you don’t need to know much more about them. This Exploration starts to unravel the mystery of ranges and gives you some more fun adventures you can have with them, including some very powerful coding techniques that use range views and range adaptors.

Ranges

So far, you have encountered two kinds of ranges: vectors and iterator ...