Re: Is there an STL algo to fill a vector with product of 2 other vectors?

From:
"jason.cipriani@gmail.com" <jason.cipriani@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 9 Dec 2008 08:34:16 -0800 (PST)
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On Dec 9, 10:55 am, Steve555 <foursh...@btinternet.com> wrote:

On 9 Dec, 15:27, Pete Becker <p...@versatilecoding.com> wrote:

On 2008-12-09 09:43:51 -0500, Steve555 <foursh...@btinternet.com> said:

I've looked through the list of algorithms and there doesn't appear t=

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be one.
transform() is the closest, but alas works on only a single vector.


There are two versions of transform. One works on a single input range
and the other works on two input ranges. The latter sounds like just
what you need.

--
  Pete
Roundhouse Consulting, Ltd. (www.versatilecoding.com) Author of "The
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(www.petebecker.com/tr1book)


Thanks Pete, hadn't spotted the second version.
I have a simple example working with multiplies<int>()
, but what about an arbitrary functor, how do I declare the arguments?
e.g: (where in1, in2, out, are my 3 vectors)


See:

http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/transform.html

Specifically, your functor must follow this:

http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/BinaryFunction.html

For example:

template <typename T> bool equals (const T &a, const T &b) {
    return a == b;
}

void somewhere () {

    std::vector<int> x, y;
    x.push_back(1);
    x.push_back(2);
    y.push_back(2);
    y.push_back(2);

    std::vector<bool> result(x.size());
    std::transform(x.begin(), x.end(), y.begin(), result.begin(),
equals<int>);

    assert(result[0] == false);
    assert(result[1] == true);

}

void pointlessCalc(in1, in2, out)
{
   out = (in1 + 1) * (in2 +2);

}


You'd want to return the value:

out pointlessCalc (in1, in2);

Jason

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