Re: Sorting STL lists

From:

Kai-Uwe Bux <jkherciueh@gmx.net>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.c++

Date:

Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:53:50 +0200

Message-ID:

<f7ao2l$2qb$1@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>

Tim Frink wrote:

I've a list with pointers to some objects,

let's say std::list< ObjectA* > myList.

The objects of the class ObjectA all have a
function "int getIntValue()". What I need
now is to sort all elements of "myList" by the
return value of "getIntValue()", i.e. after sorting
the first element in the list will be the one with
the smallest return value of "getIntValue()" ... and
the last obviously with the largest.

#include <list>
#include <cassert>
#include <iostream>
#include <ostream>

struct Object {

  int i;

  Object ( int k )
    : i ( k )
  {}

  int getIntValue ( void ) {
    return ( i );
  }

};

bool ptr_compare( Object * lhs, Object * rhs ) {
  assert( lhs != 0 );
  assert( rhs != 0 );
  return ( lhs->getIntValue() < rhs->getIntValue() );
}

typedef std::list< Object* > PtrList;

int main ( void ) {
  PtrList ptr_list;
  ptr_list.push_back( new Object ( 4 ) );
  ptr_list.push_back( new Object ( 3 ) );
  ptr_list.push_back( new Object ( 1 ) );
  ptr_list.push_back( new Object ( 7 ) );
  ptr_list.push_back( new Object ( 4 ) );
  ptr_list.push_back( new Object ( 5 ) );
  for ( PtrList::const_iterator iter = ptr_list.begin();
        iter != ptr_list.end(); ++ iter ) {
    std::cout << (*iter)->getIntValue() << '\n';
  }
  std::cout << '\n';

  ptr_list.sort( &ptr_compare ); // !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  for ( PtrList::const_iterator iter = ptr_list.begin();
        iter != ptr_list.end(); ++ iter ) {
    std::cout << (*iter)->getIntValue() << '\n';
  }
}

Best

Kai-Uwe Bux

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