Class IloAnd

An instance of IloAnd represents a conjunctive constraint. In other words, it defines a logical conjunctive-AND among any number of constraints. It lets you represent a constraint on constraints in your model. Since an instance of IloAnd is a constraint itself, you can build up extensive conjunctions by adding constraints to an instance of IloAnd by means of the member function IloAnd::add. You can also remove constraints from an instance of IloAnd by means of the member function IloAnd::remove.

The elements of a conjunctive constraint must be in the same environment.

In order for the constraint to take effect, you must add it to a model with the template IloAdd or the member function IloModel::add and extract the model for an algorithm with the member function IloAlgorithm::extract.

Most member functions in this class contain assert statements. For an explanation of the macro NDEBUG (a way to turn on or turn off these assert statements), see the concept Assert and NDEBUG.

Conjunction of Goals

If you want to represent the conjunction of goals (rather than constraints) in your model, then you should consider the function IloAndGoal (documented in the IBM ILOG Solver Reference Manual).

What Is Extracted

All the constraints (that is, instances of IloConstraint or one of its subclasses) that have been added to a conjunctive constraint (an instance of IloAnd) and that have not been removed from it will be extracted when an algorithm such as IloCplex, IloCP, or IloSolver extracts the constraint.

Example

For example, you may write:

 IloAnd and(env);
 and.add(constraint1);
 and.add(constraint2);
 and.add(constraint3);
 

Those lines are equivalent to :

 IloAnd and = constraint1 && constraint2 && constraint3;
 

This constructor creates a conjunctive constraint for use in the environment env. In order for the constraint to take effect, you must add it to a model with the template IloAdd or the member function IloModel::add and extract the model for an algorithm with the member function IloAlgorithm::extract.

The optional argument name is set to 0 by default.

This member function makes all the elements in array elements of the invoking conjunctive constraint. In other words, it applies the invoking conjunctive constraint to all the elements of array.

This member function makes constraint one of the elements of the invoking conjunctive constraint. In other words, it applies the invoking conjunctive constraint to constraint.

This member function removes all the elements of array from the invoking conjunctive constraint so that the invoking conjunctive constraint no longer applies to any of those elements.

This member function removes constraint from the invoking conjunctive constraint so that the invoking conjunctive constraint no longer applies to constraint.