T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S 1 INTRODUCTION 7 1.1 PURPOSE 7 1.2 RELEASE NOTES 7 1.3 SCOPE 7 1.4 APPLICABLE DOCUMENTS 8 1.5 REFERENCE DOCUMENTS 8 1.6 ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS 8 1.7 STYLISTIC CONVENTIONS 8 1.8 PROBLEM REPORTING/CHANGE REQUEST 8 2 USER'S GUIDE 9 2.1 OVERVIEW 9 2.2 USAGE OF FND FOUNDATION CLASS LIBRARY 9 2.3 THE fndOBJECT AND THE CONTAINER CLASSES 9 2.3.1 Basic concepts 9 2.3.2 Overview of the classes provided by fnd 10 2.3.3 The fndOBJECT class 11 2.3.4 Deriving new classes from fndOBJECT 14 2.3.5 Using generic fndCONTAINERS and fndCOLLECTIONS 17 2.3.6 Using the fndDICTIONARY class 20 2.4 OTHER CLASSES AND FUNCTIONS IN FND 22 2.5 FND, STL AND OTHER CONTAINER CLASS LIBRARIES 23 2.6 CAVEATS 23 3 REFERENCE 25 3.1 Functions and classes 27 4 INCLUDE FILES 79 4.1 fndABST_ARRAY.h 79 4.2 fndARRAY.h 81 4.3 fndASSOCIATION.h 82 4.4 fndAUTO_PTR.h 84 4.5 fndBAG.h 85 4.6 fndCOLLECTION.h 87 4.7 fndCONTAINER.h 88 4.8 fndDEQUE.h 90 4.9 fndDICTIONARY.h 92 4.10 fndFLOAT.h 93 4.11 fndHASH_TABLE.h 94 4.12 fndINT.h 96 4.13 fndLIST.h 97 4.14 fndLIST_ELEMENT.h 100 4.15 fndNAME_MAP.h 101 4.16 fndOBJECT.h 102 4.17 fndPOINTER.h 106 4.18 fndPORT.h 107 4.19 fndPOS_ARRAY.h 108 4.20 fndQUEUE.h 108 4.21 fndResource.h 109 4.22 fndSET.h 110 4.23 fndSORT_ARRAY.h 111 4.24 fndSORTABLE.h 112 4.25 fndSTACK.h 114 4.26 fndSTRING.h 117 4.27 fndString.h 121 5 EXAMPLE PROGRAMS 123 5.1 DYNAMIC ARRAYS 123 5.2 AUTOMATIC POINTERS 126 5.3 THE fndBAG 130 5.4 THE fndDEQUE 134 5.5 THE fndDICTIONARY 137 5.6 THE fndLIST 141 5.7 THE fndNAME_MAP 147 5.8 THE fndSTACK 150 5.9 THE fndSTRING 153
