Re: How to use a class's member function in STL's algorithm?

From:
"Daniel T." <daniel_t@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sat, 12 Jul 2008 07:24:27 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<e67fe4c4-34ec-4982-9cd3-4449d991d866@w7g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>
On Jul 12, 4:54 am, "want.to.be.professer" <guolihui...@gmail.com>
wrote:

We know that alomost every algorithm function, such as for_each,
find_if, use funcional as well as function pointer. But when I want
to use another class's member function, how could I do?

See example:

class TestPrint
{
public:
        TestPrint( int i ) { start_num = i; }
        void print( int i )
        {
                cout << endl<< "| " << i +=

 start_num <<

" |" << endl;
        }
private:
        int start_num;

};

int main()
{
        TestPrint* pTest = new TestPrint( 8 );
        int a[10] = {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9};
        for_each( a, a + 9, /*** Use the pTest's "print" ***/ );
        delete pTest;
        return 0;

}

/*** Use the pTest's "print" ***/ is where I want to write code .


First the obvious:

struct foo
{
    TestPrint* testPrint;
    foo( TestPrint* tp ): testPrint( tp ) { }
    void operator()( int i ) {
        testPrint->print( i );
    }
};

for_each( a, a + 9, foo( pTest ) );

the above structure can be built with the standard functional objects
as well:

for_each( a, a + 9, bind1st( mem_fun( &TestPrint::print ), pTest ) );

mem_fun wraps TestPrint::print into a function object that takes two
parameters (TestPrint* and int), and bind1st wraps the mem_fun into a
function object that always passes pTest as the first parameter.

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