Re: function to initialize vector from {1,2,3,4}

From:
"Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Thu, 17 May 2012 19:05:24 +0200
Message-ID:
<jp3b4p$6e0$1@dont-email.me>
On 17.05.2012 16:55, franceschini.roberto@gmail.com wrote:

Hello,
   copying from the web I maged to initialize a vector of integers from an array.

int myints[] = { 16, 2, 77, 29 };
vector<int> fifth(ord1, ord1 + sizeof(ord1) / sizeof(int));

Now I would like to turn this into a function that I can later call as

vector<int> myvec;
myvec = initialize_Vector( {1,2,3,4} )

I am becoming crazy with the passage of the array as argument of the function (pointer, values, ... dunno)

Can anybody explain how to write this function?

Of course any alternative solution that allows me to initialize
a vector by just specifying the values it contains in a one line
it's more than welcome


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Anyway,

<code>
#include <iostream> // std::wcout, std::endl
#include <vector> // std::vector

template< class TpElem >
class Vector
     : public std::vector< TpElem >
{
public:
     typedef TpElem Elem;
     typedef std::vector<Elem> Base;

     int count() const { return Base::size(); }

     Vector(): Base() {}

     template< int n >
     Vector( Elem const (&values)[n] )
         : Base( values, values + n )
     {}
};

int main()
{
     using std::wcout;
     using std::endl;

     int const values[] = {3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 9, 2, 6, 5, 4};

     Vector<int> const v = values;

     for( int i = 0; i < v.count(); ++i )
     {
         wcout << v[i] << " ";
     }
     wcout << endl;
}
</code>

Cheers & hth.,

- Alf

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