Re: Embarrassing problem with vector

From:
Jerry Coffin <jerryvcoffin@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:13:04 -0600
Message-ID:
<MPG.2514161d8116cd8a9897bf@news.sunsite.dk>
In article <bdd527f1-dada-41d8-8ddd-
53943b85283c@g31g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>, tuo_pe@yahoo.com says...

template<typename T>
void PrintVector(const vector<T> &vec)
{
    vector<T>::const_iterator cur = vec.begin();
    while (cur != vec.end()) {
        cout << *cur << ", ";
        ++cur;
    }
    cout << endl;
}


Now that you've got your original problem figured out, consider using
std::copy instead of the explicit loop:

template <class T>
void PrintVector(const vector<T> &vec) {
    copy(vec.begin(), vec.end(),
        ostream_iterator<T>(cout, ", "));
    cout << endl;
}

Of course, you probably don't really want the ", " after the last
element, in which case you'd want to replace the ostream_iterator
with the infix_ostream_iterator that was posted here a few months
ago. There's also little real reason to restrict the function to
working with a vector -- it could just as well work with any
collection that provides 'begin()' and 'end()' member functions:

#include <vector>
#include <algorithm>
#include <iostream>
#include "infix_iterator.h"

template <class Coll>
void PrintColl(const Coll col) {
    std::copy(col.begin(), col.end(),
       infix_ostream_iterator<typename Coll::value_type>
           (std::cout, ", "));
    std::cout << std::endl;
}

int main() {
    std::vector<int> vec;

    for (int i=0; i<16; i++)
        vec.push_back(i);

    PrintColl(vec);
    return 0;
}

Result:

0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

--
    Later,
    Jerry.

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