dictionaries in C++

[opaque agate]

So I have a custom class which is a button, i put them in a std::vector, however this isn't ideal as when I am reading specific buttons it looks like buttons[0] instead of buttons["pause"]

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[lunar kraken]

map/unordered_map

[pliant lake]

Dictionaries in C++ is called as Map.
Use std::map or std::unordered_map

[heady bloom]

I would argue though, using the ordered version is often somewhat rare

as often you do not care about the order

[rough anvil]

here's a simple idea: instead of putting your buttons into a container just so that you can then access them via a string literal as name, why not just do

Button pause;
```i.e., just give the thing an actual name?

[opaque agate]

well since there is about 10 of them it'd make sense to have them in a container, so i can iterate over all of them to call their update functions

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