How to access elements of a C++ map from a pointer?

Question

Simple question but difficult to formulate for a search engine: if I make a pointer to a map object, how do I access and set its elements? The following code does not work.<

Answer 1

You can do this:

(*myFruit)["apple"] = 1;

or

myFruit->operator[]("apple") = 1;

or

map &tFruit = *myFruit;
tFruit["apple"] = 1;