std::map::size

size_type size() const;

Returns the number of elements in the container, i.e. std::distance(begin(), end()).

Parameters

(none)

Return value

The number of elements in the container.

Exceptions

(none)	(until C++11)
`noexcept` specification: noexcept	(since C++11)

Complexity

Constant.

Example

The following code uses size to display the number of elements in a std::map:

Run this code

#include <map>
#include <iostream>
 
int main()
{ 
    std::map<int,char> nums {{1, 'a'}, {3, 'b'}, {5, 'c'}, {7, 'd'}};
 
    std::cout << "nums contains " << nums.size() << " elements.\n";
}

Output:

nums contains 4 elements.

Language
Standard library headers
Concepts
Utilities library
Strings library
Containers library
Algorithms library
Iterators library
Numerics library
Input/output library
Localizations library
Regular expressions library (C++11)
Atomic operations library (C++11)
Thread support library (C++11)
Filesystem library (C++17)
Technical Specifications

array (C++11)
vector
deque
forward_list (C++11)
list
set
multiset
map
multimap
unordered_set (C++11)
unordered_multiset (C++11)
unordered_map (C++11)
unordered_multimap (C++11)
stack
queue
priority_queue

Member functions
map::map
map::~map
map::operator=
map::get_allocator
Element access
map::at
map::operator[]
Iterators
map::beginmap::cbegin (C++11)
map::endmap::cend (C++11)
map::rbeginmap::crbegin (C++11)
map::rendmap::crend (C++11)
Capacity
map::empty
map::size
map::max_size
Modifiers
map::clear
map::insert
map::insert_or_assign (C++17)
map::emplace (C++11)
map::emplace_hint (C++11)
map::try_emplace (C++17)
map::erase
map::swap
map::extract (C++17)
map::merge (C++17)
Lookup
map::count
map::find
map::equal_range
map::lower_bound
map::upper_bound
Observers
map::key_comp
map::value_comp

empty	checks whether the container is empty (public member function)
max_size	returns the maximum possible number of elements (public member function)