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C++ Cookbook Solutions and Examples for C++ Programmers

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ISBN-10: 0596007612

ISBN-13: 9780596007614

Edition: 2005

Authors: D. Ryan Stephens, Christopher Diggins, Jonathan Turkanis, Jeff Cogswell, Jonathan Turkanis

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Do you like reinventing the wheel? If so, you can put this book back on the shelf and pretend that you never saw it. But if you're a C++ programmer who likes to get work done, and prefers to spend time solving fresh, new problems, then hold on to this book and make a beeline for the checkout counter, because the C++ Cookbook is a treasure trove of solutions to everyday C++ programming problems. C++ experts D. Ryan Stephens, Christopher Diggins, Jonathan Turkanis, and Jeff Cogswell have collected a wide variety of C++ solutions for your benefit. Topic areas covered in this book include: * Working with numbers * Dates and times * Stream-based input/output * Exception handling * Working with…    
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List price: $49.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/29/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 592
Size: 7.01" wide x 10.75" long x 1.46" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English

Preface
Building C++ Applications
Obtaining and Installing GCC
Building a Simple "Hello, World" Application from the Command Line
Building a Static Library from the Command Line
Building a Dynamic Library from the Command Line
Building a Complex Application from the Command Line
Installing Boost.Build
Building a Simpel "Hello, World" Application Using Boost.Build
Building a Static Library Using Boost.Build
Building a Dynamic Library Using Boost.Build
Building a Complex Application Using Boost.Build
Building a Static Library with an IDE
Building a Dynamic Library with an IDE
Building a Complex Application with an IDE
Obtaining GNU make
Building A Simple "Hello, World" Application with GNU make
Building a Static Library with GNU Make
Building a Dynamic Library with GNU Make
Building a Complex Application with GNU make
Defining a Macro
Specifying a Command-Line Option from Your IDE
Producing a Debug Build
Producing a Release Build
Specifying a Runtime Library Variant
Enforcing Strict Conformance to the C++ Standard
Causing a Source File to Be Linked Automatically Against a Specified Library
Using Exported Templates
Code Organization
Making Sure a Header File Gets Included Only Once
Ensuring You Have Only One Instance of a Variable Across Multiple Source Files
Reducing #includes with Forward Class Declarations
Preventing Name Collisions with Namespaces
Including an Inline File
Numbers
Converting a String to a Numeric Type
Converting Numbers to Strings
Testing Whether a String Contains a Valid Number
Comparing Floating-Point Numbers with Bounded Accuracy
Parsing a String Containing a Number in Scientific Notation
Converting Between Numeric Types
Getting the Minimum and Maximum Values for a Numeric Type
Strings and Text
Padding a String
Trimming a String
Storing Strings in a Sequence
Getting the Length of a String
Reversing a String
Splitting a String
Tokenizing a String
Joining a Sequence of Strings
Finding Things in Strings
Finding the nth Instance of a Substring
Removing a Substring from a String
Converting a String to Lower- or Uppercase
Doing a Case-Insensitive String Comparison
Doing a Case-Insensitive String Search
Converting Between Tabs and Spaces in a Text File
Wrapping Lines in a Text File
Counting the Number of Characters, Words, and Lines in a Text File
Counting Instances of Each Word in a Text File
Add Margins to a Text File
Justify a Text File
Squeeze Whitespace to Single Spaces in a Text File
Autocorrect Text as a Buffer Changes
Reading a Comma-Separated Text File
Using Regular Expressions to Split a String
Dates and Times
Obtaining the Current Date and Time
Formatting a Date/Time as a String
Performing Date and Time Arithmetic
Converting Between Time Zones
Determining a Day's Number Within a Given Year
Defining Constrained Value Types
Managing Data with Containers
Using vectors Instead of Arrays
Using vectors Efficiently
Copying a vector
Storing Pointers in a vector
Storing Objects in a list
Mapping strings to Other Things
Using Hashed Containers
Storing Objects in Sorted Order
Storing Containers in Containers
Algorithms
Iterating Through a Container
Removing Objects from a Container
Randomly Shuffling Data
Comparing Ranges
Merging Data
Sorting a Range
Partitioning a Range
Performing Set Operations on Sequences
Transforming Elements in a Sequence
Writing Your Own Algorithm
Printing a Range to a Stream
Classes
Initializing Class Member Variables
Using a Function to Create Objects (a.k.a. Factory Pattern)
Using Constructors and Destructors to Manage Resources (or RAII)
Automatically Adding New Class Instances to a Container
Ensuring a Single Copy of a Member Variable
Determining an Object's Type at Runtime
Determining if One Object's Class Is a Subclass of Another
Giving Each Instance of a Class a Unique Identifier
Creating a Singleton Class
Creating an Interface with an Abstract Base Class
Writing a Class Template
Writing a Member Function Template
Overloading the Increment and Decrement Operators
Overloading Arithmetic and Assignment Operators for Intuitive Class Behavior
Calling a Superclass Virtual Function
Exceptions and Safety
Creating an Exception Class
Making a Constructor Exception-Safe
Making an Initializer List Exception-Safe
Making Member Functions Exception-Safe
Safely Copying an Object
Streams and Files
Lining Up Text Output
Formatting Floating-Point Output
Writing Your Own Stream Manipulators
Making a Class Writable to a Stream
Making a Class Readable from a Stream
Getting Information About a File
Copying a File
Deleting or Renaming a File
Creating a Temporary Filename and File
Creating a Directory
Removing a Directory
Reading the Contents of a Directory
Extracting a File Extension from a String
Extracting a Filename from a Full Path
Extracting a Path from a Full Path and Filename
Replacing a File Extension
Combining Two Paths into a Single Path
Science and Mathematics
Computing the Number of Elements in a Container
Finding the Greatest or Least Value in a Container
Computing the Sum and Mean of Elements in a Container
Filtering Values Outside a Given Range
Computing Variance, Standard Deviation, and Other Statistical Functions
Generating Random Numbers
Initializing a Container with Random Numbers
Representing a Dynamically Sized Numerical Vector
Representing a Fixed-Size Numerical Vector
Computing a Dot Product
Computing the Norm of a Vector
Computing the Distance Between Two Vectors
Implementing a Stride Iterator
Implementing a Dynamically Sized Matrix
Implementing a Constant-Sized Matrix
Multiplying Matricies
Computing the Fast Fourier Transform
Working with Polar Coordinates
Performing Arithmetic on Bitsets
Representing Large Fixed-Width Integers
Implementing Fixed-Point Numbers
Multithreading
Creating a Thread
Making a Resource Thread-Safe
Notifying One Thread from Another
Initializing Shared Resources Once
Passing an Argument to a Thread Function
Internationalization
Hardcoding a Unicode String
Writing and Reading Numbers
Writing and Reading Dates and Times
Writing and Reading Currency
Sorting Localized Strings
XML
Parsing a Simple XML Document
Working with Xerces Strings
Parsing a Complex XML Document
Manipulating an XML Document
Validating an XML Document with a DTD
Validating an XML Document with a Schema
Transforming an XML Document with XSLT
Evaluating an XPath Expression
Using XML to Save and Restore a Collection of Objects
Miscellaneous
Using Function Pointers for Callbacks
Using Pointers to Class Members
Ensuring That a Function Doesn't Modify an Argument
Ensuring That a Member Function Doesn't Modify Its Object
Writing an Operator That Isn't a Member Function
Initializing a Sequence with Comma-Separated Values
Index