Re: adapter function for for_each

From:
mlimber <mlimber@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:08:46 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<7ac773b9-94a5-4a7d-8785-4e3930b9b27e@m44g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>
On Aug 20, 4:55 am, dominolog <dominiktomc...@gmail.com> wrote:

I've got following container:

std::vector<boost::shared_ptr<std::string> > strings;
strings.push_back( boost::shared_ptr<std::string> ( new
std::string("AAA") ) );
strings.push_back( boost::shared_ptr<std::string> ( new
std::string("BBB") ) );
strings.push_back( boost::shared_ptr<std::string> ( new
std::string("BBB") ) );

std::for_each( strings.begin(), strings.end(),
std::mem_fun( &std::length ) );

Now I want a 0-parameter method from std::string to be called on every
element from the sequence. I tried to use std::mem_fun (as above), but
it claims as follows:

cannot convert parameter 1 from 'boost::shared_ptr<T>' to 'const std::=

basic_string<_Elem,_Traits,_Ax> *'

The question is - how to construct a correct adapter for it, not using
a custom operand class. I want to use only stl stuff.


Since you're using Boost (or TR1), you can use boost::mem_fn (or
std::tr1::mem_fn) or boost::bind (or std::tr1::bind):

 std::for_each( strings.begin(), strings.end(),
    boost::mem_fn(&std::string::length));

Or

 std::for_each( strings.begin(), strings.end(),
    std::tr1::mem_fn(&std::string::length));

Or

 std::for_each( strings.begin(), strings.end(),
    boost::bind(&std::string::length, _1));

Or

 std::for_each( strings.begin(), strings.end(),
    std::tr1::bind(&std::string::length, std::tr1::placeholders::_1));

Cheers! --M

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