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Checking Whether a Stack Is Empty

Checking Whether a Stack Is Empty

It is an error to call the member function pop() on an empty stack. If you are not sure whether a stack contains any elements, you can use the member function empty() to check it first:

 stack stk;//_many lines of codeif (!stk.empty() ) //test stack before popping it{    stk.pop(); }
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