DevX Tips Bank: STL

Using the Standard Library Algorithms with Arrays

Pointers may be used as iterators when using the standard library algorithms found in …

Porting itoa Windows STL Code to Linux

This tip can help you port your code from Windows to Linux when your code uses the default …

Porting Code from Windows to Linux

This tip provides a substitute for the __strrev function, because …

Using the ostream_iterator()

This iterator works in conjunction with STL algorithms, allowing you to perform a variety …

Using Insert Iterators

Insert iterators come in very handy when you need to populate a container using an STL …

Using STL Binders

Learn how to use STL binders to use binary function objects as unary function objects in …

Favor the Function Object to the Function Pointer in STL Algorithms

Many of the STL algorithms have two versions, with one version taking one less parameter …

Returning from main()

This tip describes the exceptions and their workarounds for returning from main().

Generate Permutations for a Given Set of Numbers

Use the STL Library function next_permutation to generate …

Include Templates

Unlike ordinary classes and functions, which you declare in a header file and define …

Serializing a Polymorphic Object

A polymorphic object has one or more virtual functions. When you serialize such an …

Parenthesize Macro Arguments

It's a good idea to parenthesize every macro argument. For ...

Namespaces and the C Standard Library

The C++ Standard requires that the C standard library be declared in namespace std, …

Where are std::min() and std::max()?

The Standard Library defines the two template functions std::min() and std::max() in …

<iostream.h> or <iostream>?

Although the <iostream.h> library was deprecated for several years, many C++ users …