std:: collate

Class std::collate encapsulates locale-specific collation (comparison) and hashing of strings. This facet is used by std::basic_regex and can be applied, by means of std::locale::operator() , directly to all standard algorithms that expect a string comparison predicate.

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Specializations

The standard library is guaranteed to provide the following specializations (they are required to be implemented by any locale object ):

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Example

#include <algorithm>
#include <iostream>
#include <locale>
#include <string>
#include <vector>
 
int main()
{
    std::locale::global(std::locale("en_US.utf8"));
    std::wcout.imbue(std::locale(""));
    std::vector<std::wstring> v
    {
        L"ar", L"zebra", L"\u00f6grupp", L"Zebra",
        L"\u00e4ngel",L"\u00e5r", L"f\u00f6rnamn"
    };
 
    std::wcout << "Default locale collation order: ";
    std::sort(v.begin(), v.end());
    for (auto s : v)
        std::wcout << s << ' ';
    std::wcout << '\n';
 
    std::wcout << "English locale collation order: ";
    std::sort(v.begin(), v.end(), std::locale("en_US.UTF-8"));
    for (auto s : v)
        std::wcout << s << ' ';
    std::wcout << '\n';
 
    std::wcout << "Swedish locale collation order: ";
    std::sort(v.begin(), v.end(), std::locale("sv_SE.UTF-8"));
    for (auto s : v)
        std::wcout << s << ' ';
    std::wcout << '\n';
}

Default locale collation order: Zebra ar förnamn zebra ängel år ögrupp
English locale collation order: ängel ar år förnamn ögrupp zebra Zebra
Swedish locale collation order: ar förnamn zebra Zebra år ängel ögrupp

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