Re: assigning vector with predefined values

From:
mlimber <mlimber@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
27 Apr 2007 09:14:43 -0700
Message-ID:
<1177690483.673611.320280@s33g2000prh.googlegroups.com>
On Apr 27, 5:30 am, meisterbartsch <Bluesman.Patr...@gmx.de> wrote:

I want to assign predefined vallues to a vector, like:

std::vector<double> tr;
tr={3.36,2.09,1.47,1.1,0.87,0.72};

how do i do this? Am I able to assign values without
using .push_back(); ?


You can use a helper class with method chaining (http://
www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/references.html#faq-8.4) like this (not
tested):

 #include <vector>
 using namespace std;

 template<typename T>
 class Initializer
 {
   vector<T> v_;
 public:
   Initializer( const size_t capacity=0 )
   {
     v_.reserve( capacity );
   }

   Initializer& Add( const T& t )
   {
     v_.push_back( t );
     return *this;
   }

   operator vector<T>() const
   {
     return v_;
   }
 };

 int main()
 {
   const vector<double> v = Initializer<double>( 4 )
     .Add(1.0)
     .Add(2.0)
     .Add(3.0)
     .Add(4.0);
 }

There's a vector copy in there, but any modern compiler will use the
return value optimization to get rid of it.

Cheers! --M

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