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C++ Standard Components is a separate entity from the C++ Standard Library that is part of ISO/IEC 14482, which is the international standard for the C++ programming language and library. The C++ Standard Library is described in the C++ man page section, see Intro(C++). Several textbooks are also commonly available on the subject.
Parts of C++ Standard Components use the the old, pre-standard iostream(C++) classes for input/output, which is still provided in the UDK for compatibility purposes.
Many of the classes in the C++ Standard Library are similar in purpose to those in C++ Standard Components, such as string(C++) and the container classes of what is popularly known as the Standard Template Library. However, they differ (sometimes considerably) in the abstractions and interfaces they present to the C++ programmer. Furthermore some of the classes in C++ Standard Components have no equivalent functionality in the C++ Standard Library, such as Args(C++), Fsm(C++), Graph(C++), Path(C++), Regex(C++) and Time(C++).