C++ Primer, Fifth Edition

Contents

Chapter 17 Specialized Library Facilities

Chapter 18 Tools for Large Programs

Chapter 19 Specialized Tools and Techniques

Part IV covers additional features that, although useful in the right context, are not needed by every C++ programmer. These features divide into two clusters: those that are useful for large-scale problems and those that are applicable to specialized problems rather than general ones. Features for specialized problems occur both in the language, the topic of Chapter 19, and in the library, Chapter 17.

In Chapter 17 we cover four special-purpose library facilities: the bitset class and three new library facilities: tuples, regular expressions, and random numbers. We’ll also look at some of the less commonly used parts ...