The standard C++ library is a collection of functions, constants, classes, objects and templates that extends the C++ language providing basic functionality to perform several tasks, like classes to interact with the operating system, data containers, manipulators to operate with them and algorithms commonly needed.
The declarations of the different elements provided by the library are split in several headers that shall be included in the code in order to have access to its components:
It can be divided into:
Diagnostics library:
General utilities library:
Strings library:
Localization library:
Iterators library:
Algorithms library:
Numeric library:
This functionality is provided through several related classes, as shown in the following relationship map, with the corresponding header file names on top:
For more info see the reference page for the C++ Input/Output Library.
The declarations of the different elements provided by the library are split in several headers that shall be included in the code in order to have access to its components:
It can be divided into:
C Library
The elements of the C language library are also included as a subset of the C++ Standard library. These cover many aspects, from general utility functions and macros to input/output functions and dynamic memory management functions:cassert | C Diagnostics Library (header) |
cctype | Character handling functions (header) |
cerrno | C Errors (header) |
cfloat | Characteristics of floating-point types (header) |
ciso646 | ISO 646 Alternative operator spellings (header) |
climits | Sizes of integral types (header) |
clocale | C localization library (header) |
cmath | C numerics library (header) |
csetjmp | Non local jumps (header) |
csignal | C library to handle signals (header) |
cstdarg | Variable arguments handling (header) |
cstddef | C Standard definitions (header) |
cstdio | C library to perform Input/Output operations (header) |
cstdlib | C Standard General Utilities Library (header) |
cstring | C Strings (header) |
ctime | C Time Library (header) |
C++ Standard Library: Miscellaneous libraries
Language support library:limits | Numeric limits (header) |
new | Dynamic memory (header) |
typeinfo | Type information (header) |
exception | Standard exception class (class) |
Diagnostics library:
stdexcept | Exception classes (header) |
General utilities library:
utility | Utility components (header) |
functional | Function objects (header) |
memory | Memory elements (header) |
Strings library:
string | C++ Strings library (library) |
Localization library:
locale | Localization library (header) |
C++ Standard Library: Standard Template Library (STL)
Containers library:bitset | Bitset (class template) |
deque | Double ended queue (class template) |
list | List (class template) |
map | Map (class template) |
multimap | Multiple-key map (class template) |
multiset | Multiple-key set (class template) |
priority_queue | Priority queue (class template) |
queue | FIFO queue (class template) |
set | Set (class template) |
stack | LIFO stack (class template) |
vector | Vector (class template) |
Iterators library:
iterator | Iterator definitions (header) |
Algorithms library:
algorithm | Standard Template Library: Algorithms (library) |
Numeric library:
complex | Complex numbers library (header) |
valarray | Library for arrays of numeric values (header) |
numeric | Generalized numeric operations (header) |
C++ Standard Library: Input/Output Stream Library
Provides functionality to use an abstraction called streams specially designed to perform input and output operations on sequences of character, like files or strings.This functionality is provided through several related classes, as shown in the following relationship map, with the corresponding header file names on top:
![io stream](https://p-blog.csdn.net/images/p_blog_csdn_net/LemIST/EntryImages/20091016/iostream.gif)
For more info see the reference page for the C++ Input/Output Library.