Re: searching list for specific items..

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.stl
Date:
Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:33:50 -0500
Message-ID:
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"James" <james.mr2> wrote in message
news:a4-dnYKkQ629AnnYnZ2dnUVZ8v6dnZ2d@pipex.net

I've figured out the following will return me the iterator of the
first item matching 3

std::find_if( the_collection.begin(), the_collection.end(),
std::bind2nd(std::equal_to<A>(), A(3)));

but obviously this is not what I want.. so im thinking i need to use
std::transform which will provide me a new list with the filtered
items?


You might want to use remove_copy_if, with a logically inverted
predicate. It is regrettable that C++ standard library misses a more
straightforward copy_if algorithm.

Alternatively, you could use something like boost::filter_iterator to
iterate over a subsequence in-place:

http://boost.org/libs/iterator/doc/filter_iterator.html

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