Re: remove_if with a mask

From:
eLVa <elvadrias@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 8 Jun 2010 08:43:55 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
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On 8 juin, 11:36, Victor Bazarov <v.baza...@comcast.invalid> wrote:

On 6/8/2010 11:18 AM, Paul Bibbings wrote:

[..]
I threw together something similar to what you have and it *doesn't*
appear to be working.

    16:15:35 Paul Bibbings@JIJOU
    /cygdrive/d/CPPProjects/CLCPP $cat vector_mask.cpp
    // file: vector_mask.cpp

    #include<vector>
    #include<algorithm>
    #include<iostream>

    template<typename T>
    class MaskFunctor {
    public:
       explicit MaskFunctor(std::vector<bool>& mask)
          : mask_(mask)
          , mask_iter_(mask_.begin())
       { }
       bool operator()(const T&)
       {
          if (mask_iter_ == mask_.end())
            return false;
          else
            return *mask_iter_++;
       }
    private:
       std::vector<bool>& mask_;
       std::vector<bool>::const_iterator mask_iter_;
    };

    int main()
    {
       std::vector<bool> mask;
       for (int i = 0; i< 4; ++i)
       {
          mask.push_back(true);
          mask.push_back(false);
       }

       std::vector<int> i_vec;
       for (int i = 0; i< 8; ++i)
            i_vec.push_back(i);

       std::vector<int>::iterator end =
          std::remove_if(i_vec.begin(), i_vec.end(), MaskFunc=

tor<int>(mask));

       i_vec.erase(end, i_vec.end());

       for (std::vector<int>::const_iterator ci = i_vec.begin=

();

              ci != i_vec.end();
              ++ci)
       {
          std::cout<< *ci<< ' ';
       }
       std::cout<< '\n';
    }

    16:15:41 Paul Bibbings@JIJOU
    /cygdrive/d/CPPProjects/CLCPP $./vector_mask
    2 4 6


The implementation makes a copy of the predicate. It's important that
the predicate keeps the iterator by reference. Try rewriting it with
that in mind.


I tried :

template <class Z> struct maskChecker {
    public:
        maskChecker(const vector<bool> &mask) : it(mask.begin()) {}
        bool operator()(Z &) const { return *it ++; }
    private:
        vector<bool>::const_iterator &it;
};

template <class T> template<class Z>
void Selector<T>::compact(vector<Z> &data, const vector<bool> &mask) {
    if (data.size() != mask.size()) throw UnmatchedSize(data.size(),
mask.size());
    typename vector<Z>::iterator end = remove_if(data.begin(),
data.end(), maskChecker<Z>(mask));
    data.erase(end, data.end());
}

This does not compile ...
I know this is about it being initialized by a temporary variable
returned by mask.begin() ..
Should I directly pass a reference to the iterator to the constructor
of maskChecker rather than the vector itself ?

V
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