Generic functionsΒΆ
The vector and view classes are useful on their own. However, there are a number of tasks that one may needs to do quite often, like generating a sequence of indices, or sorting a vector, which would be tedious to rewrite each time they are needed. For this reason, the vif support library comes with a large set of utility functions to traverse, sort, rearrange, and select data inside vectors. In this section we list these various functions and describe the corresponding algorithms.
The support library introduces a global constant called npos. This is an unsigned integer whose value is the largest possible integer that the uint_t type can hold. It is meant to be used as an error value, or the value to return if no valid integer value would make sense. It is very similar in concept to the std::string::npos provided by the C++ standard library. In particular, it is worth noting that converting npos to a signed integer produces the value -1.
We now describe the functions provided by this module, sorted by categories.