A multimap is an associative container that supports equivalent keys (possibly containing multiple copies of the same key value) and provides for fast retrieval of values of another type T based on the keys. The multimap class supports bidirectional iterators.
A multimap satisfies all of the requirements of a container and of a reversible container ([container.requirements]), of an associative container ([associative.reqmts]), and of an allocator-aware container (Table [tab:containers.allocatoraware]). A multimap also provides most operations described in ([associative.reqmts]) for equal keys. This means that a multimap supports the a_eq operations in ([associative.reqmts]) but not the a_uniq operations. For a multimap<Key,T> the key_type is Key and the value_type is pair<const Key,T>. Descriptions are provided here only for operations on multimap that are not described in one of those tables or for operations where there is additional semantic information.
namespace std { template <class Key, class T, class Compare = less<Key>, class Allocator = allocator<pair<const Key, T> > > class multimap { public: // types: typedef Key key_type; typedef T mapped_type; typedef pair<const Key,T> value_type; typedef Compare key_compare; typedef Allocator allocator_type; typedef value_type& reference; typedef const value_type& const_reference; typedef implementation-defined iterator; // see [container.requirements] typedef implementation-defined const_iterator; // see [container.requirements] typedef implementation-defined size_type; // see [container.requirements] typedef implementation-defined difference_type;// see [container.requirements] typedef typename allocator_traits<Allocator>::pointer pointer; typedef typename allocator_traits<Allocator>::const_pointer const_pointer; typedef std::reverse_iterator<iterator> reverse_iterator; typedef std::reverse_iterator<const_iterator> const_reverse_iterator; class value_compare { friend class multimap; protected: Compare comp; value_compare(Compare c) : comp(c) { } public: typedef bool result_type; typedef value_type first_argument_type; typedef value_type second_argument_type; bool operator()(const value_type& x, const value_type& y) const { return comp(x.first, y.first); } }; // construct/copy/destroy: explicit multimap(const Compare& comp = Compare(), const Allocator& = Allocator()); template <class InputIterator> multimap(InputIterator first, InputIterator last, const Compare& comp = Compare(), const Allocator& = Allocator()); multimap(const multimap<Key,T,Compare,Allocator>& x); multimap(multimap<Key,T,Compare,Allocator>&& x); explicit multimap(const Allocator&); multimap(const multimap&, const Allocator&); multimap(multimap&&, const Allocator&); multimap(initializer_list<value_type>, const Compare& = Compare(), const Allocator& = Allocator()); ~multimap(); multimap<Key,T,Compare,Allocator>& operator=(const multimap<Key,T,Compare,Allocator>& x); multimap<Key,T,Compare,Allocator>& operator=(multimap<Key,T,Compare,Allocator>&& x); multimap& operator=(initializer_list<value_type>); allocator_type get_allocator() const noexcept; // iterators: iterator begin() noexcept; const_iterator begin() const noexcept; iterator end() noexcept; const_iterator end() const noexcept; reverse_iterator rbegin() noexcept; const_reverse_iterator rbegin() const noexcept; reverse_iterator rend() noexcept; const_reverse_iterator rend() const noexcept; const_iterator cbegin() const noexcept; const_iterator cend() const noexcept; const_reverse_iterator crbegin() const noexcept; const_reverse_iterator crend() const noexcept; // capacity: bool empty() const noexcept; size_type size() const noexcept; size_type max_size() const noexcept; // modifiers: template <class... Args> iterator emplace(Args&&... args); template <class... Args> iterator emplace_hint(const_iterator position, Args&&... args); iterator insert(const value_type& x); template <class P> iterator insert(P&& x); iterator insert(const_iterator position, const value_type& x); template <class P> iterator insert(const_iterator position, P&& x); template <class InputIterator> void insert(InputIterator first, InputIterator last); void insert(initializer_list<value_type>); iterator erase(const_iterator position); size_type erase(const key_type& x); iterator erase(const_iterator first, const_iterator last); void swap(multimap<Key,T,Compare,Allocator>&); void clear() noexcept; // observers: key_compare key_comp() const; value_compare value_comp() const; // map operations: iterator find(const key_type& x); const_iterator find(const key_type& x) const; size_type count(const key_type& x) const; iterator lower_bound(const key_type& x); const_iterator lower_bound(const key_type& x) const; iterator upper_bound(const key_type& x); const_iterator upper_bound(const key_type& x) const; pair<iterator,iterator> equal_range(const key_type& x); pair<const_iterator,const_iterator> equal_range(const key_type& x) const; }; template <class Key, class T, class Compare, class Allocator> bool operator==(const multimap<Key,T,Compare,Allocator>& x, const multimap<Key,T,Compare,Allocator>& y); template <class Key, class T, class Compare, class Allocator> bool operator< (const multimap<Key,T,Compare,Allocator>& x, const multimap<Key,T,Compare,Allocator>& y); template <class Key, class T, class Compare, class Allocator> bool operator!=(const multimap<Key,T,Compare,Allocator>& x, const multimap<Key,T,Compare,Allocator>& y); template <class Key, class T, class Compare, class Allocator> bool operator> (const multimap<Key,T,Compare,Allocator>& x, const multimap<Key,T,Compare,Allocator>& y); template <class Key, class T, class Compare, class Allocator> bool operator>=(const multimap<Key,T,Compare,Allocator>& x, const multimap<Key,T,Compare,Allocator>& y); template <class Key, class T, class Compare, class Allocator> bool operator<=(const multimap<Key,T,Compare,Allocator>& x, const multimap<Key,T,Compare,Allocator>& y); // specialized algorithms: template <class Key, class T, class Compare, class Allocator> void swap(multimap<Key,T,Compare,Allocator>& x, multimap<Key,T,Compare,Allocator>& y); }