c++ associative container: map and set

#include <map>
#include <set>
#include <string>
#include <iostream>
#include <algorithm>
#include <functional>
#include <locale>

void rightTrimPunct(std::string &str)
{
        std::locale locl("C");
        if (!str.empty()) {
                if (std::ispunct(str.back(), locl)) {
                        str.pop_back();
                }
        }
}

void toUpper(std::string &str)
{
        std::locale locl("C");
        std::transform(str.begin(), str.end(), str.begin(), 
                       std::bind(std::toupper<char>, std::placeholders::_1, locl));
}

int main()
{
        std::map<std::string, size_t> word_count;
        std::set<std::string> exclude = {"The", "But", "Or", "An", "A",
                                         "the", "but", "or", "an", "a"};
        std::string word;
        while (std::cin >> word) {
                rightTrimPunct(word);
                toUpper(word);
                if (!word.empty() && exclude.find(word) == exclude.end())
                        ++word_count[word];
        }   
        for (const auto &w : word_count) {
                std::cout << w.first << " occurs " << w.second
                          << ((w.second > 1) ? " times" : " time") << std::endl;
        }

        return 0;
}

From C++ primer 5th Excercise 11.4 (p.422)

g++ *.cpp -std=c++11
//gcc 4.9.2