Re: STL vector iterator question

From:
Pete Becker <pete@versatilecoding.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 4 Sep 2007 16:20:24 -0400
Message-ID:
<2007090416202416807-pete@versatilecodingcom>
On 2007-09-04 15:43:07 -0400, "T. Crane" <trevis.crane@gmail.com> said:

The max intensity is found by dereferencing maxInt. However, at this
point I'm at a loss as to how to get the corresponding (x,y,z) values
for that max intensity.

Alternatively, if I were to group the data using method A, once I have
a max intensity, it's trivial to find the (x,y,z) values, but I don't
know a good (i.e. easy, elegant, whatever) way to find the max
intensity short of writing a max_element-like function.


Back in the days of FORTRAN, we used parallel arrays to store data
values because FORTRAN didn't have structured data. In C++ we have
structured data, and parallel arrays are rarely appropriate. Is there a
good reason for using the old-fashioned (<g>) approach?

struct point_intensity
{
double x;
double y;
double z;
double intensity;
};

vector<point_intensity> v;

struct compare_intensity
{
bool operator()(const point_intensity& p1, const point_intensity& p2)
    { return p1.intensity < p2.intensity; }
};

vector<point_intensity>::const_iterator loc = max_element(v.begin(),
v.end(), compare_intensity());

--
  Pete
Roundhouse Consulting, Ltd. (www.versatilecoding.com) Author of "The
Standard C++ Library Extensions: a Tutorial and Reference
(www.petebecker.com/tr1book)

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