std::set::size

C++

Language

Headers

Freestanding and hosted implementations

Named requirements

Language support library

Concepts library (C++20)

Diagnostics library

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

Containers library

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

span (C++20)

std::set

Member functions

set::set

set::~set

set::operator=

set::get_allocator

Iterators

set::beginset::cbegin (C++11)

set::endset::cend (C++11)

set::rbeginset::crbegin (C++11)

set::rendset::crend (C++11)

Capacity

set::empty

set::size

set::max_size

Modifiers

set::clear

set::insert

set::emplace (C++11)

set::emplace_hint (C++11)

set::erase

set::swap

set::extract (C++17)

set::merge (C++17)

Lookup

set::count

set::find

set::contains (C++20)

set::equal_range

set::lower_bound

set::upper_bound

Observers

set::key_comp

set::value_comp

Deduction guides(C++17)

size_type size() const;		(until C++11)
size_type size() const noexcept;		(since C++11)

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.

Complexity

Constant.

Example

The following code uses size to display the number of elements in a std::set<int>:

Run this code

#include <set>
#include <iostream>

int main()
{ 
    std::set<int> nums {1, 3, 5, 7};

    std::cout << "nums contains " << nums.size() << " elements.\n";
}

Output:

nums contains 4 elements.

See also

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