If I want to specialise just one method in a template, how do I do it?

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You can provide a specialization for only that function outside the class declaration.

template <typename T> struct Node
{
    // general method split
    void split()
    {
        // implementation here or somewhere else in header
    }
};

// prototype of function declared in cpp
void splitIntNode( Node & node );

template <>
void Node<int>::split()
{
     splitIntNode( this ); // which can be implemented
}

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
   Node <char> x;
   x.split(); //will call original method
   Node <int> k;
   k.split(); //will call the method for the int version
}

If splitIntNode needs access to private members, you can just pass those members into the function rather than the whole Node.

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