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Sams Teach Yourself C++ in One Hour a Day, 9th Edition
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Sams Teach Yourself C++ in One Hour a Day, 9th Edition

by Siddhartha Rao
February 2022
Beginner
848 pages
22h 40m
English
Sams
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Lesson 18

STL list and forward_list

The Standard Template Library (STL) offers a doubly linked list: the template class std::list. The main advantages of a linked list are fast and constant time insertion and removal of elements. C++ also supports a singly linked list, the class std::forward_list, which can be traversed in only one direction.

In this lesson, you learn

  • ■   How to instantiate list and forward_list

  • ■   How to use the STL list classes, including for insertion and removal of elements

  • ■   How to reverse and sort elements

The Characteristics of std::list

A linked list is a collection of nodes in which each node, in addition to containing a value or an object of interest, also points to the next node; that is, each node links to ...

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