Does find() also return the last element of a map in C++?

Question

I\'d like to use the find() method, to catch a particular element of my std::map()

Now the return value is either the element I was looking for, or it it points to the e

Answer 1

You can actually use if(!map.count(elem)) to check whether elem is present in the map, count() returns 0 if elem is not present in the map while find() returns an iterator which has to been compared to the end iterator, i.e., if(map.find(elem) != map.end()).