Re: remove_if with a mask
On 8 juin, 10:46, "Leigh Johnston" <le...@i42.co.uk> wrote:
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On 8 juin, 10:09, "Leigh Johnston" <le...@i42.co.uk> wrote:
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On 6/8/2010 9:13 AM, eLVa wrote:
I have a simple problem : you are given a container, let's say a
vector of some objects, and a vector of bool which is to be treate=
d
as
a mask. You have to remove every element from the container for wh=
ich
the mask is true.
basically, two iterators (one over the container and one over the
mask) iterates through their respective containers, removing eleme=
nts
from the first when the second is true. I tried a few solutions,
using
remove_if but I was not succesful !
Post what you have, post what didn't work, post your explanation on
how
you expected it to work. Otherwise this looks too much like home=
work,
and
we don't do homework.
Ok ! Wait a minute there, it's not an homework, it's a question I'm
trying to resolve.
I thought that it was not wise to keep an iterator into a functor used
in remove_if. I wanted a direction, that's all.
So that's what I got :
template <class Z> struct maskChecker {
public:
maskChecker(const vector<bool> &mask) : it(mask.begin()=
) {}
bool operator()(Z &) const { return *it ++; }
private:
mutable vector<bool>::const_iterator it;
};
template <class T> template<class Z>
void Selector<T>::compact(vector<Z> &data, const vector<bool> &mask) {
if (data.size() != mask.size()) throw UnmatchedSize(data.size=
(),
mask.size());
typename vector<Z>::iterator end = remove_if(data.begin(),
data.end(), maskChecker<Z>(mask));
data.erase(end, data.end());
}
That's kinda working, what's your opinion ?
Does anybody have a solution that only uses stl, (i.e I don't want=
to
use boost) !
The solution involves a predicate that should keep the second itera=
tor
(and increment it every time the operator() is called). The pred=
icate
can probably be const, but has to keep non-const reference to the m=
ask
iterator. Dereference the mask iterator to check and let the op(=
) of
your
predicate essentially return that dereferenced bit.
V
--
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Fail. Your solution will not work on all implementations, it will =
fail
with
VC++ for example as VC++ first does a find_if to determine if it shou=
ld
continue which results in more than N operator()'s being called.
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying, but I think it is what I
read somewhere about having an iterator inside a functor as not a very
good idea ... Is that it ?
/Leigh
It will not work as-is as an implementation is free to make copies of
predicates in its implementation of a particular algorithm.
would it be a good idea to make the iterator static then ?
/Leigh
You might be able to get it to work if your store a *reference* to an
iterator which is then shared across all copies of the predicate made but=
I
am unsure as to what the standard guarantees wrt remove_if so I am unsure=
if
it is a good idea.
it seems that the standard library is not meant to be use this way.
however, IMHO, filtering a container based on a mask is extremely
useful, isn't it ?
what would be a good, portable way to do something similiar, if
everything fails ??
/Leigh
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