Ray Lischner began his career as a software developer, but dropped out of the corporate rat race to become an author. He started using C++ in the late 1980s, working at a company that was rewriting its entire product line in C++. Over the years, he has witnessed the evolution of C++ from cfront to native compilers to integrated development environments to visual, component-based tools. Ray has taught C++ at Oregon State University. He is the author of Delphi in a Nutshell and O'Reilly's upcoming C++ in a Nutshell, as well as other books.

• Introduction Containers Standard Containers Container Adapters Values Common Members Exceptions Deques Lists Maps Priority Queues Queues Sets Stacks Strings Vectors Iterators Iterator Categories Using Iterators Iterator Traits const_iterators Insertion Iterators I/O Stream Iterators Raw Storage Iterator Reverse Iterators Iterator Function Templates Algorithms Nonmodifying Operations Comparison Searching Binary Search Modifying Sequence Operations Uninitialized Sequence Operations Sorting Merging Set Operations Heap Operations Permutations Miscellaneous Numerics Function Objects Using Functors Functor Foundations Adapters Binders Arithmetic and Logical Functors Comparison Functors Miscellaneous Allocators Bitset Pairs Smart Pointer Boost Arrays Dynamic Bitsets Binders Composition Adapters Functional Header Replacement Lambda Functions Smart Pointers Index