Re: std::map: best way to get biggest key?

From	Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c++
Subject	Re: std::map: best way to get biggest key?
Date	2012-02-13 07:13 +1300
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On 02/13/12 04:07 AM, Rui Maciel wrote:
>
> The question, which you failed read or understand, was if there was a better
> way to extract the biggest key of a std::map.  To put it more clearly, the
> question was if there was any standard way (that is, employing components
> from the STL) that made it possible to extract the biggest key from a
> std::map, without relying on the key comparison function used by an std::map
> object.

The key comparison function used by std::map defines "Biggest" in the 
context of that map.

-- 
Ian Collins

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std::map: best way to get biggest key? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-02-11 21:44 +0000
  Re: std::map: best way to get biggest key? Leigh Johnston <leigh@i42.co.uk> - 2012-02-11 21:57 +0000
    Re: std::map: best way to get biggest key? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-02-11 22:09 +0000
      Re: std::map: best way to get biggest key? "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2012-02-11 23:28 +0100
        Re: std::map: best way to get biggest key? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-02-12 15:07 +0000
          Re: std::map: best way to get biggest key? Dombo <dombo@disposable.invalid> - 2012-02-12 17:00 +0100
          Re: std::map: best way to get biggest key? "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2012-02-12 18:41 +0100
          Re: std::map: best way to get biggest key? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-02-13 07:13 +1300
          Re: std::map: best way to get biggest key? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-02-12 19:40 +0000
          Re: std::map: best way to get biggest key? Joshua Maurice <joshuamaurice@gmail.com> - 2012-02-12 13:25 -0800
      Re: std::map: best way to get biggest key? Dombo <dombo@disposable.invalid> - 2012-02-11 23:29 +0100
      Re: std::map: best way to get biggest key? Paavo Helde <myfirstname@osa.pri.ee> - 2012-02-11 16:39 -0600
        Re: std::map: best way to get biggest key? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-02-12 15:16 +0000
          Re: std::map: best way to get biggest key? Goran <goran.pusic@gmail.com> - 2012-02-12 08:41 -0800
          Re: std::map: best way to get biggest key? Leigh Johnston <leigh@i42.co.uk> - 2012-02-12 18:48 +0000

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