Re: reference to const static object variable

From:
James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:59:46 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<9d98c6cf-b983-40f2-a86d-c6e8e362a580@1g2000prd.googlegroups.com>
On Nov 14, 10:24 pm, Bob Doe <DumpForJ...@gmail.com> wrote:

sorry,

The example should have been:

class MyObj
{
   public:
      MyObj()
      {
         std::vector<std::string> t;
         t.push_back("zzz");
         l_["a"] = t;
      }

      std::map<std::string,
               std::vector<std::string> > l_;
};

const static MyObj obj;

int main()
{
   const std::vector<std::string> &regexList = obj.l_["key"];


Have you looked at the documentation of std::map<>:operator[]?
What does it do?

Since it modifies the map, you can't use it on a const object.

}

I want to maintain the const-ness of MyObj, and have read
access to the std::vector within std::map...


Then operator[] isn't the function you want. Something like:

    std::map< std::string, std::vector< std::string >

::const_iterator

                        entry = obj.l_[ "key" ] ;
    if ( entry != obj.l_.end() ) {
        std::vector< std::string > const&
                            regexList = entry->second ;
        // ...
    }

maybe. (Or maybe std::map isn't what you really want, except
buried deep in the implementation of something with a more
congenial interface.)

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