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starter_dev

Reputation: 69

Can you create a string based dictionary in C++?

I'm trying to make a python-like dictionary in C++, and using was suggested many times but in my case i want to label my lists with words instead of "1, 2, 3, 4...", is that possible?

Example dict: "Cookie": "sugar", "chocolate", "flour" "Pie": "milk", "apples", "flour"

etc etc

Upvotes: 1

Views: 420

Answers (1)

Maf
Maf

Reputation: 725

You can do something really beautiful like this using the data structure proposed by @Retired Ninja. You can use unordered_map instead of map for better performance, since the order of the indexes doesn't matter:

#include <iostream>
#include <unordered_map>
#include <vector>


using namespace std;

int main()
{
    unordered_map<string, vector<string>> dict = {
        {"Cookies", {"sugar", "chocolate", "flour"}},
        {"Pies", {"milk", "apples", "flour"}},
        {"Drinks", {"Refrigerant", "Beer", "Juice"}},
        //And so on... You can add values later
    };
    
    for(const auto& object : dict){

        cout<<object.first<<": {";

        for(const auto& value : object.second){
            cout<<value<<", ";
        }

        cout<<object.first<<'}';
        cout<<endl;
    }

    return 0;
}

Upvotes: 2

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