Friday 14 August 2009

Instantiating a Multimap inside a class

The following is a very simple example of Instantiating a Multimap. This example was posted as a result of a comment on the actual Multimap example here.




//Program tested on Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 - Zahid Ghadialy
//This program shows use of multi-maps in a class
#include<iostream>
#include<map>
#include <string>

using namespace
std;

class
mapInstantiator
{

public
:
~
mapInstantiator();
void
createMultiMap(void);
void
insertElements(pair<string, int> element);
void
printer(void);
private
:
multimap<string, int> *phoneNums;
};


void
mapInstantiator::createMultiMap(void)
{

//Instantiate
phoneNums = new multimap<string, int>;
}


void
mapInstantiator::insertElements(pair<string, int> element)
{

phoneNums->insert(element);
}


void
mapInstantiator::printer(void)
{

cout<<"\n\nMultimap printer method"<<endl;
cout<<"Map size = "<<phoneNums->size()<<endl;
multimap<string, int>::iterator it = phoneNums->begin();
while
(it != phoneNums->end())
{

cout<<"Key = "<<it->first<<" Value = "<<it->second<<endl;
it++;
}
}


mapInstantiator::~mapInstantiator()
{

//Dont forget to delete the pointer
delete phoneNums;
}


int
main()
{

mapInstantiator aClass;
aClass.createMultiMap();

//Insert key, value as pairs
aClass.insertElements(pair<string, int>("Joe",123));
aClass.insertElements(pair<string, int>("Will",444));
aClass.insertElements(pair<string, int>("Joe",369));
aClass.insertElements(pair<string, int>("Joe",812));
aClass.insertElements(pair<string, int>("Will",4556));
aClass.insertElements(pair<string, int>("Smith",71));

aClass.printer();

return
0;
}


The Output is as follows:


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