Re: How to pass the field name of a struct as a parameter?

From:

"mlimber" <mlimber@gmail.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.c++

Date:

29 Jun 2006 12:09:32 -0700

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Jellicle wrote:

mlimber =E5=86=99=E9=81=93=EF=BC=9A

Markus Schoder wrote:

Jellicle wrote:

But I cannot compile the codes successfully in Visual C++ 6.0.

You probably need a newer compiler.

Try this (I didn't test it, but it compiles :-) ). I think it should
work with VC++ 6, and it works with keys of different types and
different names:

#include <vector>
#include <cassert>

using namespace std;

template<class Iterator, typename key_type, typename T>
Iterator minfield(
   Iterator start,
   const Iterator &end,
   key_type T::*p)
{
   key_type acc = (*start).*p;
   Iterator min_i(start);
   ++start;
   while(start != end)
   {
     const key_type &r = (*start).*p;
     if(r < acc)
     {
       acc = r;
       min_i = start;
     }
     ++start;
   }
   return min_i;
}

struct S1
{
   typedef int key_type;
   key_type key1;
   S1( key_type key ) : key1(key) {}
};

struct S2
{
   typedef double key_type;
   key_type key2;
   S2( key_type key ) : key2(key) {}
};

int main()
{
   std::vector<S1> v1;
   v1.push_back( S1(1) );
   v1.push_back( S1(5) );
   v1.push_back( S1(-10) );
   v1.push_back( S1(3) );

   vector<S1>::const_iterator m1 = minfield(
     v1.begin(), v1.end(), &S1::key1 );
   assert( m1->key1 == -10 );

   std::vector<S2> v2;
   v2.push_back( S2(1.1) );
   v2.push_back( S2(5.1) );
   v2.push_back( S2(-1.1) );
   v2.push_back( S2(3.1) );

   vector<S2>::const_iterator m2 = minfield(
     v2.begin(), v2.end(), &S2::key2 );
   assert( m2->key2 == -1.1 );

   return 0;
}

Cheers! --M

Thank you, mlimber. I am really grateful for you kind help!

Yes, it works well in VC6 :)

However, my question is that the structs were defined by other people,
and were used
somewhere else. So I cannot redefine them.

There should be no need to alter the structs (I had initially added the
key_type to them but realized I didn't need to). If the structs looked
like this, it would work the same:

struct S1
{
   int key1;
   // ... whatever else
};

struct S2
{
   double key2;
   // ... whatever else
};

Cheers! --M

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