Re: copy from keys from multimap into the vector

From:
James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:15:25 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<c7502014-3749-42da-8427-a610e21d3ab6@m44g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>
On Oct 29, 8:33 pm, puzzlecracker <ironsel2...@gmail.com> wrote:

I am using while loop for that but I am sure you can do it
quicker and more syntactically clear with copy function.

Here is what I do and would like to if someone has a cleaner
solution:

    vector<string> vec;
    multimap<stirng, int> myMap

   // populate myMap

    multimap<string, int >::iterator iter = myMap.begin();

    while(iter != myMap.end())
    {
           vec.push_back(iter->first)
    }


Do you really want multiple entries in the vector when there are
multiple entries for a single key in the map? If so, something
like the following should work:

    template< typename Pair >
    struct First
    {
        typedef Pair argument_type ;
        typedef typename Pair::first_type
                                result_type ;

        typename Pair::first_type
                                operator()( Pair const& obj ) const
        {
            return obj.first ;
        }
    } ;

and then:

    typedef First< Map::value_type >
                        Mapper ;
    typedef boost::transform_iterator< Mapper, Map::const_iterator >
                        InitIter ;
    std::vector< std::string >
                        k( InitIter( m.begin(), Mapper() ),
                           InitIter( m.end(), Mapper() ) ) ;

If you only want each unique key to appear once, then you should
be able to use a boost::filter_iterator on the
transform_iterator.

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