STL container with a specific type as a generic argument

Question

Is there any way that I can make a function which takes a container with a specific type (lets say std::string) as a parameter

void foo(const std::container<std::string> &cont) {    for(std::string val: cont) {       std::cout << val << std::endl;    } } 

and call it for every type of stl container as input? like above?

std::set<std::string> strset; std::vector<std::string> strvec; std::list<std::string> strlist;  foo(strset); foo(strvec); foo(strlist); 

Answer 1

You can make foo a function template taking a template template parameter for the container type.

e.g.

template<template<typename...> typename C> void foo(const C<std::string> &cont) {    for(std::string val: cont) {       std::cout << val << std::endl;    } } 

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