[Cs3] recognizing that the template type parameter is indeed a container
Mikhail Nesterenko
mikhail at cs.kent.edu
Thu Mar 10 14:59:21 EST 2022
CS3 students,
There was a question as to how to recognize the type in a
template. In this example that we studied in class:
http://www.cs.kent.edu/~mikhail/classes/cs3/Examples/STLAlgorithms/Iterators/advance.cpp
There is a function is_same where you can check for specific
container, but it gets cumbersome quickly
https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/types/is_same
However, there is this elegant solution proposed in stackoverflow that
checks if the template-parameter has begin() and end() and an iterator
defined:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9407367/determine-if-a-type-is-an-stl-container-at-compile-time
Thanks,
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Mikhail
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