Report one-character non-numeric array indices like longer ones (#5800)

* Report one-character non-numeric array indices like longer ones

A JSON pointer reference token that is not a number but has only one
character (e.g. "/a/x") was reported as out_of_range.404 ("unresolved
reference token"), because the "is not a number" check only ran for
tokens longer than one character; "/a/xy" got parse_error.109. Both now
throw parse_error.109. "-" and the empty token are still reported as
out_of_range.404. As a consequence, value(json_pointer, default) on an
array now throws for "/x" as it already did for "/xy".

Also document why ordered_map::erase's destroy/placement-new loop on
pair<const Key, T> is kept despite [basic.life]/8 before C++20.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Document the one-character array index change

Add 3.13.0 version-history entries to at, operator[], value, patch,
patch_inplace, and unflatten, and describe in exceptions.md which array
indices throw parse_error.109 and which out_of_range.404.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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@@ -36,8 +36,9 @@ The function can throw the following exceptions:
- Throws [`parse_error.109`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionparse_error109) if an array index in a key is not a
number; example: `"array index 'one' is not a number"`
- Throws [`out_of_range.404`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionout_of_range404) if a level becomes an array
(because one of its keys is `0`) and another key at that level cannot be an array index; example:
`"unresolved reference token 'x'"`
(because one of its keys is `0`) and another key at that level begins with a digit but is not a valid array index
(such as `1a`), or is `-`; example:
`"unresolved reference token '-'"`
## Complexity
@@ -80,3 +81,6 @@ Apart from these two cases, for a JSON value `j`, the following is always true:
- Added in version 2.0.0.
- Made the array/object decision independent of the object's iteration order in version 3.13.0.
- Throws [`parse_error.109`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionparse_error109) instead of
[`out_of_range.404`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionout_of_range404) for a one-character array index that is
not a digit (e.g., `/x`) in version 3.13.0, as it already did for longer ones.