Re: iterator error

From:
"Jim Langston" <tazmaster@rocketmail.com>
Newsgroups:
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Date:
Thu, 5 Apr 2007 21:14:23 -0700
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"??????????" <chendong.jy@gmail.com> wrote in message
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windows xp, visual studio 2005
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#include <iostream>
#include <map>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
map<int, int>::iterator it = 0;
if( it != 0 ) //break point,
this is an run time error?
cout<<"ok!";
}
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why it can be assign "0", but can't compare with "0"?


Read the other's comments. You are trying to compare an iterator and an
integer. On some (most?) implementations it = 0 would probably be invalid
also. The correct usage is to initialize them with .begin() or .rbegin() or
some iterator value. For example:

int main()
{
   std::map<int, int> MyMap;
   std::map<int, int>::iterator it = MyMap.begin();
   // code
}

persontally, I normally use iterators mostly in for loops to iterate through
a container (vector or map) or to get a pointer to a newly inserted member.
Such as:

typedef std::map<int, int> IntMap;
IntMap MyMap;
// fill MyMap
for ( IntMap::iterator it = MyMap.begin(); it != MyMap.end(); ++it )
   std::cout << it->first << "-" << it->second << "\n";

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