Re: Using one vector to construct another

From:
James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
29 May 2007 01:43:35 -0700
Message-ID:
<1180428215.421519.121250@q66g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>
On May 29, 3:03 am, Markus Schoder <a3vr6dsg-use...@yahoo.de> wrote:

On Mon, 28 May 2007 15:46:01 -0700, Salt_Peter wrote:

On May 28, 5:28 pm, Chris Roth <czr...@mail.usask.ca> wrote:

I am constructing a vector of objects of class A. The constructor for
class A takes an instance of class B in its constructor. I have a
vector of B objects and would like to construct a vector of A objects
so that each is constructed using the corresponding B object.

Is this possible or do I need to use pointers along with new and
delete?


With std::back_inserter...

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

class B { };

class A {
  B m_b;
public:
  A(const B& b) : m_b( b ) { }
};

int main()
{
  std::vector< B > vb(10);
  std::vector< A > va;
  std::copy( vb.begin(), vb.end(), std::back_inserter(va) );
}


This of course works only if A's constructor is not explicit.


If A's constructor is not explicit, then:

    std::vector< A > va( vb.begin(), vb.end() ) ;

is all that is needed. If A's constructor is explicit, then you
probably need transform and a transforming object, or some sort
of transforming iterator. With transform:

    struct XForm
    {
        A operator()( B const& b ) const
        {
            return static_cast< A >( b ) ;
        }
    } ;

    std::transform( vb.begin(), vb.end(),
                    XForm(),
                    std::back_inserter( va ) ) ;

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