Description : This is a built-in function in C++ STL which returns a constant iterator referring to the first element in the map container. Since map container contains the element in an ordered way, cbegin() will point to that element that will come first according to the container鈥檚 sorting criterion.
Example :
// C++ program to illustrate the map::cbegin() function
#include <bits/stdc++.h>
int main() {
// initialize container
std::map<int, int> mp;
// insert elements in random order
mp.insert({ 2, 30 });
mp.insert({ 1, 40 });
mp.insert({ 3, 60 });
mp.insert({ 4, 20 });
mp.insert({ 5, 50 });
auto ite = mp.cbegin(); //cbegin()
std::cout << "The first element is: ";
std::cout << "{" << ite->first << ", "
<< ite->second << "}\n";
// prints the elements
std::cout << "\nThe map is : \n";
std::cout << "KEY\tELEMENT\n";
for (auto itr = mp.cbegin(); itr != mp.cend(); ++itr) {
std::cout << itr->first << '\t' << itr->second << '\n';
}
return 0;
}