Re: To retrieve Keys or values of a Map

From:
gpderetta <gpderetta@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:03:43 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<6aaf232c-2164-4716-ae06-fbf4db7dad7b@k17g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>
On Nov 4, 1:05 pm, Alan Woodland <a...@aberystwyth.ac.uk> wrote:

There's a few annoying things about this though, the function take_first
has to live inside the anonymous namespace because it's not legal to
write the following, which given the absence of lambda functions would
be cleaner in my view:

template <typename T1, typename T2>
std::list<T1> keys(const std::map<T1,T2>& in) {
   struct {
     const T1& operator()(const typename std::map<T1,T2>::value_typ=

e&

pair) {
       return pair.first;
     }
   } take_first;

   std::list<T1> klist(in.size());
   std::transform(in.begin(), in.end(), klist.begin(), take_first);
   return klist;

}


This will work:

template <typename T1, typename T2>
std::list<T1> keys(const std::map<T1,T2>& in) {
   struct take_first{
     static const T1& op(const typename std::map<T1,T2>::value_type&
pair) {
       return pair.first;
     }
   };

   std::list<T1> klist(in.size());
   std::transform(in.begin(), in.end(), klist.begin(),
&take_first::op);
   return klist;
}

HTH,

--
gpd

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