std::multimap<Key,T,Compare,Allocator>::begin, std::multimap<Key,T,Compare,Allocator>::cbegin

 

C++

Compiler support

Freestanding and hosted

Language

Standard library headers

Named requirements

Feature test macros (C++20)

Language support library

Concepts library (C++20)

Metaprogramming library (C++11)

Diagnostics library

General utilities library

Strings library

Containers library

Iterators library

Ranges library (C++20)

Algorithms library

Numerics library

Localizations library

Input/output library

Filesystem library (C++17)

Regular expressions library (C++11)

Concurrency support library (C++11)

Technical specifications

Symbols index

External libraries

 

Containers library

Sequence

array (C++11)

vector

deque

forward_list (C++11)

list

Associative

set

multiset

map

multimap

Unordered associative

unordered_set (C++11)

unordered_multiset (C++11)

unordered_map (C++11)

unordered_multimap (C++11)

Adaptors

stack

queue

priority_queue

Views

span (C++20)

 

std::multimap

Member functions

multimap::multimap

multimap::~multimap

multimap::operator=

multimap::get_allocator

Iterators

multimap::beginmultimap::cbegin (C++11)

multimap::endmultimap::cend (C++11)

multimap::rbeginmultimap::crbegin (C++11)

multimap::rendmultimap::crend (C++11)

Capacity

multimap::empty

multimap::size

multimap::max_size

Modifiers

multimap::clear

multimap::insert

multimap::emplace (C++11)

multimap::emplace_hint (C++11)

multimap::erase

multimap::swap

multimap::extract (C++17)

multimap::merge (C++17)

Lookup

multimap::count

multimap::find

multimap::contains (C++20)

multimap::equal_range

multimap::lower_bound

multimap::upper_bound

Observers

multimap::key_comp

multimap::value_comp

Non-member functions

std::swap

erase_if (C++20)

operator==operator!=operator<operator>operator<=operator>=operator<=> (until C++20)(until C++20)(until C++20)(until C++20)(until C++20)(C++20)

Deduction guides(C++17)

 

iterator begin();		(until C++11)
iterator begin() noexcept;		(since C++11)
const_iterator begin() const;		(until C++11)
const_iterator begin() const noexcept;		(since C++11)
const_iterator cbegin() const noexcept;		(since C++11)

Returns an iterator to the first element of the multimap.

If the multimap is empty, the returned iterator will be equal to end().

Parameters

(none)

Return value

Iterator to the first element.

Complexity

Constant.

Example

Run this code

#include <algorithm>
#include <cassert>
#include <iostream>
#include <map>
#include <string>
#include <cstddef>
 
int main()
{
    auto show_node = [](const auto& node, char ending = '\n') {
        std::cout << "{ " << node.first << ", " << node.second << " }" << ending;
    };
 
    std::multimap<std::size_t, std::string> mmap;
    assert(mmap.begin() == mmap.end());   // OK
    assert(mmap.cbegin() == mmap.cend()); // OK
 
    mmap.insert({ sizeof(long), "LONG" });
    show_node(*(mmap.cbegin()));
    assert(mmap.begin() != mmap.end());   // OK
    assert(mmap.cbegin() != mmap.cend()); // OK
    mmap.begin()->second = "long";
    show_node(*(mmap.cbegin()));
 
    mmap.insert({ sizeof(int), "int" });
    show_node(*mmap.cbegin());
 
    mmap.insert({ sizeof(short), "short" });
    show_node(*mmap.cbegin());
 
    mmap.insert({ sizeof(char), "char" });
    show_node(*mmap.cbegin());
 
    mmap.insert({{ sizeof(float), "float" }, { sizeof(double), "double" }});
 
    std::cout << "mmap = { ";
    std::for_each(mmap.cbegin(), mmap.cend(), [&](const auto& n) { show_node(n, ' '); });
    std::cout << "};\n";
}

Possible output:

{ 8, LONG }
{ 8, long }
{ 4, int }
{ 2, short }
{ 1, char }
mmap = { { 1, char } { 2, short } { 4, int } { 4, float } { 8, long } { 8, double } };

See also

end cend (C++11)	returns an iterator to the end (public member function)
begincbegin (C++11)(C++14)	returns an iterator to the beginning of a container or array (function template)