{"id":2853,"date":"2011-07-11T23:46:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T23:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vcblog\/2011\/07\/11\/container-pretty-printer-advanced-stl-part-6\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T18:44:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T18:44:50","slug":"container-pretty-printer-advanced-stl-part-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/container-pretty-printer-advanced-stl-part-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Container Pretty Printer – Advanced STL, Part 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Part 6<\/span><\/a> of my second video lecture series focused on the Standard Template Library, I demonstrate how to write a “pretty printer” for STL containers that’s capable of formatting a vector<tuple<int, string, int>> as [(1, “ten”, 100), (2, “twenty”, 200), (3, “thirty”, 300)].  It’s easy to use, with the default syntax being print(cout, container), or print_line(cout, container) to emit a newline.  It’s also highly customizable with just a bit of extra code.  Following the Visual Studio IDE’s visualizers, which display a container’s size before its elements, I show how to provide a custom formatter that can print a set<pair<int, int>> as [3]{(11, 22), (33, 44), (55, 66)}.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This advanced series assumes that you’re familiar with C++ and the STL’s interface, but not the STL’s implementation.  If you haven’t used the STL extensively yet, I recommend watching my introductory series.  For reference, here are all of the links:<\/span><\/p>\n

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[STL Introduction]<\/span><\/p>\n

Part 1<\/span><\/a> (sequence containers)<\/span><\/p>\n

Part 2<\/span><\/a> (associative containers)<\/span><\/p>\n

Part 3<\/span><\/a> (smart pointers)<\/span><\/p>\n

Part 4<\/span><\/a> (Nurikabe solver) – see Wikipedia’s article<\/span><\/a> and my updated source code<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Part 5<\/span><\/a> (Nurikabe solver, continued)<\/span><\/p>\n

Part 6<\/span><\/a> (algorithms and functors)<\/span><\/p>\n

Part 7<\/span><\/a> (algorithms and functors, continued)<\/span><\/p>\n

Part 8<\/span><\/a> (regular expressions)<\/span><\/p>\n

Part 9<\/span><\/a> (rvalue references)<\/span><\/p>\n

Part 10<\/span><\/a> (type traits)<\/span><\/p>\n

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[Advanced STL]<\/span><\/p>\n

Part 1<\/span><\/a> (shared_ptr – type erasure)<\/span><\/p>\n

Part 2<\/span><\/a> (equal()\/copy() – algorithm optimizations)<\/span><\/p>\n

Part 3<\/span><\/a> (_ITERATOR_DEBUG_LEVEL, #pragma detect_mismatch, and \/d1reportSingleClassLayout)<\/span><\/p>\n

Part 4<\/span><\/a> (rvalue references v2.1 and associative container mischief)<\/span><\/p>\n

Part 5<\/span><\/a> (deduplicator, using Boost.Bimap<\/span><\/a>\/Filesystem<\/span><\/a>\/ScopeExit<\/span><\/a>) – see my deduplicate.cpp<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Part 6<\/span><\/a> (container pretty printer) – see my pretty_printer.cpp<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Stephan T. Lavavej<\/span><\/p>\n

Visual C++ Libraries Developer<\/span><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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