Re: removing elements from a std::map with predicate

From:
Michael DOUBEZ <michael.doubez@free.fr>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:02:12 +0100
Message-ID:
<49c231d7$0$6471$426a74cc@news.free.fr>
Ralf Goertz wrote:

I try tor remove elements from a std::map<int,some_class> for which a
condition depending on the value is met. For containers like vector this
is easy

#include <algorithm>
#include <map>
#include <vector>
#include <iostream>
#include <iterator>

using namespace std;

typedef map<int,int> intmap;

bool is42_m(intmap::value_type w) {
    return w.second==42;
}

bool is42_v(const int& w) {
    return w==42;
}

int main() {
    map<int,int> m;
    m[14711]=52;
    m[17]=42;
    m[4]=17;
    vector<int> v;
    v.push_back(52);
    v.push_back(42);
    v.push_back(17);
    v.erase(remove_if(v.begin(),v.end(),is42_v),v.end());
    //v.erase(remove_if(m.begin(),m.end(),is42_m),m.end());
    copy(v.begin(),v.end(),ostream_iterator<int>(cout," "));
    cout<<endl;
}

I know that this can't work with a map since remove_if rearranges the
elements of the container which is not possible for a map. But how can I
do that with a map?


By hand, something approching could be:

template<class AssociativeContainer, class Predicate>
void erase_if(AssociativeContainer& cont,Predicate pred)
{
   //STATIC ASSERT that AssociativeContainer is not const
   typedef typename AssociativeContainer::iterator iterator;
   iterator it=cont.begin();
   const iterator end=cont.end();
   while(it!=end);
   {
    iterator tmp=it++;
         if(pred(*tmp))cont.erase(tmp);
   }
}

--
Michael

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