stl::multimap - how do i get groups of data?

Asked 2008-10-29T18:11:42.663

Multimap essentially has groups of data sorted by the key. I want a method by which I could access these individual groups and get their aggregate values. For example, in a std::multimap< string, int > I store

{"Group1", 1}, 
{"Group1", 2}, 
{"Group1", 3}, 

{"Group2", 10}, 
{"Group2", 11}, 
{"Group2", 12}

Having stored these values, I should be able to iterate this multimap and get the aggregate values of each "group". Problem is there aren't any functions defined in STL to access MultiMaps in such a way. I could use lower_bound, upper_bound to manually iterate the multimap and total the group's contents, but I am hoping there could be better ways already defined in STL ? Can anyone propose a solution as to how I could get the aggregate values for a group in the above example.

c++ stl multimap

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// samekey.cpp -- Process groups with identical keys in a multimap

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <map>
using namespace std;

typedef multimap<string, int> StringToIntMap;
typedef StringToIntMap::iterator mapIter;

int main ()
{
    StringToIntMap mymap;

    mymap.insert(make_pair("Group2", 11));
    mymap.insert(make_pair("Group1",  3));
    mymap.insert(make_pair("Group2", 10));
    mymap.insert(make_pair("Group1",  1));
    mymap.insert(make_pair("Group2", 12));
    mymap.insert(make_pair("Group1",  2));

    cout << "mymap contains:" << endl;

    mapIter m_it, s_it;

    for (m_it = mymap.begin();  m_it != mymap.end();  m_it = s_it)
    {
        string theKey = (*m_it).first;

        cout << endl;
        cout << "  key = '" << theKey << "'" << endl;

        pair<mapIter, mapIter> keyRange = mymap.equal_range(theKey);

        // Iterate over all map elements with key == theKey

        for (s_it = keyRange.first;  s_it != keyRange.second;  ++s_it)
        {
           cout << "    value = " << (*s_it).second << endl;
        }
    }

    return 0;

}   //  end main

// end samekey.cpp

answered 2009-07-28T19:28:00.070

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Not a multimap answer, but you can do things like the following if you so choose.

#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <map>
#include <string>
#include <boost/assign/list_of.hpp>
#include <boost/foreach.hpp>
using namespace std;
using namespace boost;
using namespace boost::assign;

int main() {
    typedef map<string, vector<int> > collection;
    collection m;
    m["Group 1"] = list_of(1)(2)(3);
    m["Group 2"] = list_of(10)(11)(12);
    collection::iterator g2 = m.find("Group 2");
    if (g2 != m.end()) {
        BOOST_FOREACH(int& i, g2->second) {
            cout << i << "\n";
        }
    }
}

answered 2008-10-29T19:02:07.990

stl::multimap - how do i get groups of data?

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