Re: member iterator - request for comment

From:
Mikosz <mikoszrrr@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:45:17 CST
Message-ID:
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Paul, thanks for the quick reply.

On 22 Cze, 01:35, Paul Bibbings <paul.bibbi...@gmail.com> wrote:

Mikosz <mikosz...@gmail.com> writes:

[...] to perform some action on one of the members of each of the
collection's elements. I couldn't find any solutions within the STL,


    #include <vector>
    #include <set>
    #include <algorithm>

    struct A {
       A(int v) : val(v) { } // added for convenience here
       int val;
    };

    struct val_functor {
       int operator()(A a) { return a.val; }
    };

    int main()
    {
       std::vector<A> as;
       std::set<int> vals;
       for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) as.push_back(i);

       std::transform(as.begin(),
                      as.end(),
                      std::inserter(vals, vals.begin()),
                      val_functor());
    }


Good point, I actually forgot about 'transform'. However, a solution
that would allow me not to implement an extracting functor would be
much neater. Again - I don't know of any existing solutions, so I
crafted my own. What do you think of this:

template<class PointerToMember, class Member>
class Extractor {
public:

     Extractor(PointerToMember ptr) :
         ptr_(ptr) {
     }

     template<class T>
     Member& operator()(T& object) {
         return object.*ptr_;
     }

     template<class T>
     const Member& operator()(const T& object) const {
         return object.*ptr_;
     }

private:

     PointerToMember ptr_;

};

template <class Member, class PointerToMember>
Extractor<PointerToMember, Member> makeExtractor(PointerToMember ptr)
{
     return Extractor<PointerToMember, Member>(ptr);
}

struct A {
     A(int v) :
         val(v) {
     }
     int val;
};

int main() {
     std::vector<A> as;
     std::set<int> vals;
     for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
         as.push_back(i);
     }

     std::transform(as.begin(), as.end(), std::inserter(vals,
vals.begin()), makeExtractor<int>(&A::val));
     std::copy(vals.begin(), vals.end(),
std::ostream_iterator<int>(std::cout, ", "));
}

std::copy(makeMemberIterator<int>(as.begin(), &A::val),
makeMemberIterator<int>(as.end(), &A::val), std::back_inserter(vals));

and it works just fine.


I wouldn't have thought that the above would work at all. Given that
your vals is of type std::set<int>, I would have expected the above line
of code to fail on std::set not defining push_back.


Sure, that was a typing error. Should be std::inserter instead of
std::back_inserter in there.

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