Re: C++ Primer ex 9.14

From:
=?UTF-8?B?RXJpayBXaWtzdHLDtm0=?= <Erik-wikstrom@telia.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sun, 16 Sep 2007 11:02:15 GMT
Message-ID:
<X28Hi.8882$ZA.4646@newsb.telia.net>
On 2007-09-16 12:43, arnuld wrote:

/* C++ Primer - 4/e
 *
 * STATEMENT
 * write a program to read sequence of strings from the standard
 * input into a vector. Print the vector.
 *
 */
                                                                                                                             
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include <iterator>
                                                                                                                             
int main()
{
  std::vector<std::string> svec;
  std::string word;
                                                                                                                             
  while( std::cin >> word )
    {
      svec.push_back( word );
    }
                                                                                                                             
  /* print the vector */
  std::cout << "\n\n----- You Entered -------\n\n";
  std::copy( svec.begin(), svec.end(),
             std::ostream_iterator<std::string>( std::cout, "\n" ) );
                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                             
  return 0;
}
        

It runs fine. Is there any way I can replace what while loop with
std::copy ?


Might be, you would have to use std::istream_iterators and a back insert
iterator to add the elements to the vector, something like (untested):

std::copy(
   std::istream_iterator<std::string>(std::cin),
   std::istream_iterator<std::string>() // The same as end() for a stream
   std::back_insert_iterator<std::vector>(vec)
);

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