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<h1><a name="c_sets" id="c_sets">C++ Sets</a></h1>
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set&lt;Key, Compare, Alloc&gt;
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The C++ Set is an associative STL container that contains a sorted set of unique
objects of type Key. Sorting is done using the key comparison function Compare (default is set to std::less&lt;Key&gt;).

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		<td class="col0"><a href="../../stl/set/set.html" class="wikilink1" title="stl:set:set_constructors">Constructors</a></td><td class="col1">default methods to allocate, copy, and deallocate sets</td>
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		<td class="col0"><a href="../../stl/set/operator.html" class="wikilink1" title="stl:set:set_operators">Operators</a></td><td class="col1">assign and compare sets</td>
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		<td class="col0"><a href="../../stl/set/begin.html" class="wikilink1" title="stl:set:begin">begin</a></td><td class="col1">returns an iterator to the beginning of the set</td>
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		<td class="col0"><a href="../../stl/set/clear.html" class="wikilink1" title="stl:set:clear">clear</a></td><td class="col1">removes all elements from the set</td>
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		<td class="col0"><a href="../../stl/set/count.html" class="wikilink1" title="stl:set:count">count</a></td><td class="col1">returns the number of elements matching a certain key</td>
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		<td class="col0"><a href="../../stl/set/empty.html" class="wikilink1" title="stl:set:empty">empty</a></td><td class="col1">true if the set has no elements</td>
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		<td class="col0"><a href="../../stl/set/end.html" class="wikilink1" title="stl:set:end">end</a></td><td class="col1">returns an iterator just past the last element of a set</td>
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		<td class="col0"><a href="../../stl/set/equal_range.html" class="wikilink1" title="stl:set:equal_range">equal_range</a></td><td class="col1">returns iterators to the first and just past the last elements matching a specific key</td>
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		<td class="col0"><a href="../../stl/set/erase.html" class="wikilink1" title="stl:set:erase">erase</a></td><td class="col1">removes elements from a set</td>
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		<td class="col0"><a href="../../stl/set/find.html" class="wikilink1" title="stl:set:find">find</a></td><td class="col1">returns an iterator to specific element</td>
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		<td class="col0"><a href="../../stl/set/insert.html" class="wikilink1" title="stl:set:insert">insert</a></td><td class="col1">insert items into a set</td>
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		<td class="col0"><a href="../../stl/set/key_comp.html" class="wikilink1" title="stl:set:key_comp">key_comp</a></td><td class="col1">returns the function that compares keys</td>
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		<td class="col0"><a href="../../stl/set/lower_bound.html" class="wikilink1" title="stl:set:lower_bound">lower_bound</a></td><td class="col1">returns an iterator to the first element greater than or equal to a certain value</td>
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		<td class="col0"><a href="../../stl/set/max_size.html" class="wikilink1" title="stl:set:max_size">max_size</a></td><td class="col1">returns the maximum number of elements that the set can hold</td>
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		<td class="col0"><a href="../../stl/set/rbegin.html" class="wikilink1" title="stl:set:rbegin">rbegin</a></td><td class="col1">returns a reverse_iterator to the end of the set</td>
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		<td class="col0"><a href="../../stl/set/rend.html" class="wikilink1" title="stl:set:rend">rend</a></td><td class="col1">returns a reverse_iterator to the beginning of the set</td>
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		<td class="col0"><a href="../../stl/set/size.html" class="wikilink1" title="stl:set:size">size</a></td><td class="col1">returns the number of items in the set</td>
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		<td class="col0"><a href="../../stl/set/swap.html" class="wikilink1" title="stl:set:swap">swap</a></td><td class="col1">swap the contents of this set with another</td>
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		<td class="col0"><a href="../../stl/set/upper_bound.html" class="wikilink1" title="stl:set:upper_bound">upper_bound</a></td><td class="col1">returns an iterator to the first element greater than a certain value</td>
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		<td class="col0"><a href="../../stl/set/value_comp.html" class="wikilink1" title="stl:set:value_comp">value_comp</a></td><td class="col1">returns the function that compares values</td>
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