C++ Standard Library header files

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C++ Standard Library
Language Utilities library Strings library Containers library Algorithms library Iterators library Numerics library Input/output library Localizations library Regular expressions library (C++11) Atomic operations library (C++11) Thread support library (C++11)

The interface of C++ standard library is defined by a set of files. These are as following:

Contents 1 Utilities library 1.1 Dynamic memory management 1.2 Numeric limits 1.3 Error handling 2 Strings library 3 Containers library 4 Algorithms library 5 Iterators library 6 Numerics library 7 Input/output library 8 Localization library 9 Regular Expressions library 10 Atomic Operations library 11 Thread support library

[edit] Utilities library

• <cstdlib> - General purpose utilities: program control, dynamic memory allocation, random numbers, sort and search

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• <csignal> - Functions and macro constants for signal management
• <csetjmp> - Macro (and function) that saves (and jumps) to an execution context
• <cstdarg> - Handling of variable length argument lists
• <typeinfo> - Runtime type information utilities
• <bitset> - std::bitset class template
• <functional> - Function objects, designed for use with the standard algorithms
• <utility> - Various utility components
• <ctime> - C-style time/date utilites
• <chrono> - C++ time utilites (since C++11)
• <cstddef> - typedefs for types such as size_t, NULL and others
• <initializer_list> - std::initializer_list class template (since C++11)

[edit] Dynamic memory management

• <new> - Low-level memory management utilities
• <memory> - Higher level memory management utilities

[edit] Numeric limits

• <climits> - limits of integral types
• <cfloat> - limits of float types
• <cstdint> - limits of other types
• <limits> - standardized way to query properties of fundamental types

[edit] Error handling

• <exception> - Exception handling utilities
• <stdexcept> - Standard exception objects
• <cassert> - Conditionally compiled macro that compares its argument to zero
• <system_error> - defines std::error_code, a platform-dependent error code
• <cerrno> - Macro containing the last error number

[edit] Strings library

• <cctype> - functions to determine the type contained in character data
• <cwctype> - functions for determining the type of wide character data
• <cstring> - various narrow character string handling functions
• <cwstring> - various wide character string handling functions
• <cwchar> - various wide and multibyte string handling functions
• <cuchar> - C-style Unicode character conversion functions (since C++11)
• <string> - std::basic_string class template

[edit] Containers library

• <array> - std::array container (since C++11)
• <vector> - std::vector container
• <deque> - std::deque container
• <list> - std::list container
• <forward_list> - std::forward_list container (since C++11)
• <set> - std::set and std::multiset associative containers
• <map> - std::map and std::multimap associative containers
• <unordered_set> - std::unordered_set and std::unordered_multiset unordered associative containers (since C++11)
• <unordered_map> - std::unordered_map and std::unordered_multimap unordered associative containers (since C++11)
• <stack> - std::stack container adaptor
• <queue> - std::queue and std::priority_queue container adaptors

[edit] Algorithms library

• <algorithm> - Algorithms that operate on containers

[edit] Iterators library

• <iterator> - Container iterators

[edit] Numerics library

• <cmath> - Common mathematics functions
• <complex> - Complex number type
• <valarray> - Class for representing and manipulating arrays of values
• <random> - Random number generators and distributions
• <numeric> - Numeric operations on values in containers
• <ratio> - Compile-time rational arithmetic (since C++11)
• <cfenv> - Floating-point environment access functions (since C++11)

[edit] Input/output library

• <iosfwd> - forward declarations of all objects in the input/output library
• <ios> - std::ios_base class, std::basic_ios class template and several typedefs
• <istream> - std::basic_istream class template and several typedefs
• <ostream> - std::basic_ostream class template and several typedefs
• <iostream> - std::basic_iostream class template and several typedefs
• <fstream> - std::basic_fstream, std::basic_ifstream, std::basic_ofstream class templates and several typedefs
• <sstream> - std::basic_stringstream, std::basic_istringstream, std::basic_ostringstream class templates and several typedefs
• <iomanip> - Helper functions to control the format or input and output
• <cstdio> - C-style input-output functions

[edit] Localization library

• <locale> - Localization utilities
• <clocale> - C localization utilities
• <codecvt> - Unicode conversion facilities (since C++11)

[edit] Regular Expressions library

• <regex> - Classes, algorithms and iterators to support regular expression processing

[edit] Atomic Operations library

• <atomic> - Atomic operations library

[edit] Thread support library

• <thread> - std::thread class and supporting functions
• <mutex> - mutual exclusion primitives
• <future> - primitives for asynchronous computations