On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 04:42:38PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Andre> This could be solved in twelve lines or so in any language that > Andre> has "map" > > Which is irrelevant to our problem, probably but...
Why? Can't this be used as instead of the 'sort | uniq' you need? > Andre> set<string> seen; > > Does the standard offer guarrantees about the order in which these > things will be given by the iterator? Sorted by operator<(string,string) unless specified otherwise if I am not mistaken. Note that _this_ is irrelevant as it is not used for sorting but just to determine whether we currently look at a duplicate. If so, it is swallowed, if not, the current string is echoed to cout. Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
