STL, hash_map is sorted !!

[Brian Budge]

Have you tried longer examples?  I highly doubt that, in general, the
hash_map will keep sorted order.  I would guess this is a fluke.

Stick to containers built on balanced binary search trees (such as map).

  Brian

On 6/26/06, Mohammad Shojatalab <shoja@ebi.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi  There,
>
> I am trying to make use of hash_map from STL, and I was assuming that
> hash_map doesn't sort the (key, value) pairs and keep the
> pairs in the order I inserted them into the hash_map.
>
> This is the simple program:
>
> #include <ext/hash_map>
>
> using namespace std;
> using namespace __gnu_cxx;
>
> typedef vector<int> cvCodes;
> typedef hash_multimap<int, std::string> cvValues;
>
> int main()
> {
>  cvCodes items;
>  cvValues itemsvalues;
>  cvValues::iterator pos;
>
>  itemsvalues.insert(make_pair(3,"Z"));
>  itemsvalues.insert(make_pair(1,"C"));
>  itemsvalues.insert(make_pair(2,"A"));
>
>  for (pos = itemsvalues.begin(); pos != itemsvalues.end(); pos++)
>    cout << pos->first << "  " << pos->second << endl;
>
> return 0;
> }
>
> I was expecting to see the following output:
>
> 3  Z
> 1  C
> 2  A
>
> but instead I get this one:
>
> 1  C
> 2  A
> 3  Z
>
> I need to use a container which keeps the order of thing as I insert them.
>
> Im using gcc version 4.0.2 20051125 (Red Hat 4.0.2-8)
> on Linux   2.6.14-1.1653_FC4smp
>
> I appreciate any help.
>
> Thanks
> Mohammad
>
>
>