Question

I’ve been having problems with getting multimap to work. I’ll just show the code and describe the problem:

    #include <string>
    ...

    multimap<std::string, pinDelayElement> arcList
    pinDelayElement pde;
    std:string mystring = "test"
    arcList[mystring] = pde;

However, when I compile, the last line gives me the following error:

error C2676: binary ‘[‘ : ‘std::multimap<_Kty,_Ty>’ does not define this operator or a conversion to a type acceptable to the predefined operator
with
[
_Kty=std::string,
_Ty=Psdfwr::pinDelayElement
]

Does anyone know something I might be doing wrong?

Answer 1

The code below is an example of how to do it properly.

1. As others pointed out, std::multimap doesn’t have the indexing operator[] because it makes no sense to extract elements out of it — there are multiple values per each index.

2. You must insert a multimap<...>::value_type.

#include <string>
#include <map>

void test()
{
    typedef std::multimap<std::string, int> Map;
    Map map;
    map.insert(Map::value_type("test", 1));
}