templated std::vector variable as an argument by reference problem

From:
"mast2as@yahoo.com" <mast2as@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
1 Mar 2007 21:26:54 -0800
Message-ID:
<1172813214.415999.130830@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com>
sorry i am too sure how to write a more explicit subject but this code
doesn't compile for the type string and I am not sure why (and I am
not sure either how to describe the problem but by looking at the
program you should understand what I am trying to do easily, which is
convert an array of string to an array of another type, either string,
float or interger.)

I am not sure what I am trying to do is legal. Obvisouly it doesn't
seem to be as the compiler complains but I wonder if there's a way i
can get it to work ?

Thanks for your help.

-mark

template<typename T>
void GetArray( std::vector<T> &array )
{
  std::vector<std::string> strArray;
  strArray.push_back( "test1" );
  strArray.push_back( "test2" );

  if ( typeid( std::string ) == typeid( T ) )
  {

    for ( size_t i = 0; i < strArray.size(); ++i )
    {
      // DOESN'T WORK ??? <<< REFUSE TO COMPILE IF THE NEXT LINE IS
COMMENTED OUT!
      //array.push_back( strArray[i] );
    }
  }

  std::vector<std::string> intArray;
  intArray.push_back( "1" );
  intArray.push_back( "2" );

  if ( typeid( int ) == typeid( T ) )
  {
    for ( size_t i = 0; i < intArray.size(); ++i )
    {
      array.push_back( atoi( intArray[i].c_str() ) );
    }
  }

}

int main()
{
  //std::vector<std::string> strArr;
  //GetArray( strArr );

  std::vector<int> intArr;
  GetArray<int>( intArr );

  return 0;
}

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error: no matching function for call to 'std::vector<int,
std::allocator<int> >::push_back(std::basic_string<char,
std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >&)'
/usr/include/c++/4.0.0/bits/stl_vector.h:602: note: candidates are:
void std::vector<_Tp, _Alloc>::push_back(const _Tp&) [with _Tp = int,
_Alloc = std::allocator<int>]

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