Re: Confused about list "find" Technique

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red floyd <no.spam.here@its.invalid>
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Date:
Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:22:50 -0700
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On 4/28/2010 4:17 PM, Ian Collins wrote:

On 04/29/10 10:54 AM, Mike Copeland wrote:

I am trying to develop code that will "find" if a value exists in an
STL list structure. Perhaps I'm being too clever in my attempt to use
code snippets I've found (and maybe I should be doing this search in a
more brute-force manner with an iterator loop), but what I have is the
code below. It doesn't compile (many errors), so I know I'm
misunderstanding something fundamental.
I probably need to use find_if with this (mess), but I haven't gotten
far enough to see what will actually work. Note that I'm using a list
because there's no unique key and "body" values may be duplicated.
Please advise. TIA

[redacted]


So you have a list of structures to search. You have two options, ether
add an operator== to DBEBUILD (after changing its name!) or provide a
function object to do the comparison:

[redacted]

The second approach is normally used if it is inappropriate or
impossible to add an operator== to the stored type.


Third alternative: add operator<(), or specialize std::less<>() and use
std::find().

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