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How to use std::map::operator= with initializer lists

I asked the same question before about boost::assign::map_list_of (which didn't get answered), then I thought maybe using brace initialization would help, but it didn't.

This works perfectly:

std::map<int, char> m = {{1, 'a'}, {3, 'b'}, {5, 'c'}, {7, 'd'}};

But this doesn't:

std::map<int, char> m;
m = {{1, 'a'}, {3, 'b'}, {5, 'c'}, {7, 'd'}};

Visual Studio 2013 gives the error error C2593: 'operator =' is ambiguous, could be either operator=(std::initalizer_list) or operator=(std::map&&).

Is it possible to get the second version to work? For cases where m is a member variable, for example.

Solution

  • You could construct a temporary and use it in the assignment.

    std::map<int, char> m;
m = std::map<int, char>{{1, 'a'}, {3, 'b'}, {5, 'c'}, {7, 'd'}};

    If you don't want to repeat the type, you can use decltype.

    std::map<int, char> m;
m = decltype(m){{1, 'a'}, {3, 'b'}, {5, 'c'}, {7, 'd'}};

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