Sorting a std::map by value before output & destroy

Question

I\'m aware that map is not prepared to be sorted. It\'s heavily optimized for fast and random key access and actually doesn\'t support std::sort.

My cur

Answer 1

For iterating by value you could use boost::multi_index. It will looks as follows:

#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 
using namespace boost::multi_index;

struct X {
  X( std::string val_str, int val_int ) : val_str(val_str), val_int(val_int) {};
  std::string val_str;
  int         val_int;
};

typedef multi_index_container<
    X,
    indexed_by<
        hashed_unique< member >,
        ordered_non_unique< member >
    >
> X_map;

void func()
{
   X_map data;
   data.insert( X("test", 1) );
   // ...

   // search by val_str 
   // complexity is equal to O(1) for hashed index (worst cast O(n) ), 
   // and O(log n) for ordered index
   X_map::const_iterator it = data.find( "test" );
   // ...

   // iterate in order of val_int
   size_t N = 0;
   for ( X_map::nth_index<1>::type::const_iterator it = data.get<1>().begin(); N < 10 && it != data.get<1>().end(); ++it, ++N ) {
     // copy elements somewhere
   }
}

You could use any index for iteration ( val_str or val_int ).