std::flat_map<Key,T,Compare,KeyContainer,MappedContainer>:: operator[]

Returns a reference to the value that is mapped to a key equivalent to key or x respectively, performing an insertion if such key does not already exist.

Parameters

Return value

Exceptions

If an exception is thrown by any operation, the insertion has no effect.

Complexity

Logarithmic in the size of the container, plus the cost of insertion (if any) of an empty element.

Notes

operator [ ] is non-const because it inserts the key if it doesn't exist. If this behavior is undesirable or if the container is const , at may be used.

insert_or_assign returns more information than operator [ ] and does not require default-constructibility of the mapped type.

Example

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <flat_map>
 
void println(auto const comment, auto const& map)
{
    std::cout << comment << '{';
    for (const auto& pair : map)
        std::cout << '{' << pair.first << ": " << pair.second << '}';
    std::cout << "}\n";
}
 
int main()
{
    std::flat_map<char, int> letter_counts{{'a', 27}, {'b', 3}, {'c', 1}};
 
    println("letter_counts initially contains: ", letter_counts);
 
    letter_counts['b'] = 42; // updates an existing value
    letter_counts['x'] = 9;  // inserts a new value
 
    println("after modifications it contains: ", letter_counts);
 
    // count the number of occurrences of each word
    // (the first call to operator[] initialized the counter with zero)
    std::flat_map<std::string, int>  word_map;
    for (const auto& w : {"this", "sentence", "is", "not", "a", "sentence",
                          "this", "sentence", "is", "a", "hoax"})
        ++word_map[w];
    word_map["that"]; // just inserts the pair {"that", 0}
 
    for (const auto& [word, count] : word_map)
        std::cout << count << " occurrence(s) of word '" << word << "'\n";
}

letter_counts initially contains: {{a: 27}{b: 3}{c: 1}}
after modifications it contains: {{a: 27}{b: 42}{c: 1}{x: 9}}
2 occurrence(s) of word 'a'
1 occurrence(s) of word 'hoax'
2 occurrence(s) of word 'is'
1 occurrence(s) of word 'not'
3 occurrence(s) of word 'sentence'
0 occurrence(s) of word 'that'
2 occurrence(s) of word 'this'

See also