Re: Can I get a ptr to an element from an stl vector iterator?

From:
James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Fri, 26 Dec 2008 01:52:56 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<9430f7b7-9c83-40ef-b19a-54d194f8b741@g1g2000pra.googlegroups.com>
On Dec 26, 9:26 am, Steve555 <foursh...@btinternet.com> wrote:

Given a struct:

struct myStruct{
        int a;
        float b;
};

and given a vector containing them, how do I get a ptr to one
while iterating through that vector:

myStruct *myStructPtr;
vector<myStruct>::iterator iter;
for(iter = myStructVec.begin(); iter != myStructVec.end(); ++ iter)
 {
        myStructPtr = iter; (???
       ChangeStructValuesFunction( myStructPtr );
       ...
}

The goal is to modify a & b in-place. I'm doing this in a
time- critical loop, so I want to do it in place because with
very big and complicated structs or classes, it seems wasteful
to have copy masses of data in and out of the vector.


If you're interfacing legacy code to do the modifications,
&*iter will do the trick, but most of the time, either the
function should take a reference (so you pass *iter), or you
will be modifying the fields in place iter->fieldName.

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