Re: Deleting items from std::list

From:
Howard Hinnant <howard.hinnant@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:10:24 GMT
Message-ID:
<howard.hinnant-995E8D.08102226062006@syrcnyrdrs-01-ge0.nyroc.rr.com>
In article <1151276851.123572.175280@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>,
 "Markus Svilans" <msvilans@gmail.com> wrote:

std::list<int> data;

// [ code here to load data with values ]

std::list<int>::reverse_iterator ri = data.rbegin();

while (ri != data.rend())
{
    // Get next iterator in case ri is erased.
    std::list<int>::reverse_iterator next = ri;
    ++next;

    // Check if ri needs to be erased
    if (*ri == VALUE_TO_ERASE)
    {
        // [ code here to process *ri before erasing ]
        data.erase(ri); // <-- Causes compiler error
    }

    ri = next;
}

Obviously an erase method is not defined for reverse iterators in
std::list.

Is there a nice solution to this problem? Do I need to get a more
recent version of STLport?


for (std::list<int>::iterator ri = data.end(); ri != data.begin();)
{
    if (*--ri == VALUE_TO_ERASE)
    {
        // [ code here to process *ri before erasing ]
        ri = data.erase(ri);
    }
}

-Howard

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