Re: Question about using for_each

From:
Greg Herlihy <greghe@pacbell.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Thu, 12 Jul 2007 02:20:07 GMT
Message-ID:
<C2BADDE5.C009%greghe@pacbell.net>
On 7/11/07 2:24 PM, in article
1184189049.834597.178400@r34g2000hsd.googlegroups.com, "Yan"
<yvinogradov@gmail.com> wrote:

I don't seem to be able to use for_each if it should replace a 'for'
loop in a method (constructor in my case) and inside that 'for' loop a
class member variable is being accessed. The presence of this member
variable prevents me from using a static or global method to be passed
as a third parameter to for_each, and mem_fun doesn't seem to work for
me either as I am not going to execute a method of an iterator but
pass an iterator as a parameter. I am not sure that explanation makes
a lot of sense, so below is a sample code. I would like to be able to
replace the 'for' loop inside C class constructor with a for_each.
Please don't pay attention to what is actually happening with these
two vectors of ints, it's just for illustration purposes. Thanks.

-----------------------------------------------------------

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

using namespace std;

typedef vector<int> vectorInts;
typedef vector<int>::iterator vectorIntsIter;

class C {
  public:

    C(pair<vectorIntsIter, vectorIntsIter> aPair) {
      for (vectorIntsIter iter = aPair.first; iter != aPair.second; +
+iter) {
        // do something that involves member variable
        // which seems to prevent using a static method
        // such as for example this:
        ints.push_back(*iter + 10);
      }
    }


A std::for_each() is not the best choice for implementing the loop in the
constructor. I would use std::copy() instead:

      copy( aPair.first, aPair.second, back_inserter(ints) );

Greg

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