Re: How to write previous element in STL list

From:
Victor Bazarov <v.Abazarov@comAcast.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:42:49 -0400
Message-ID:
<h4khu0$1ah$1@news.datemas.de>
cornelis van der bent wrote:

In my code I want to go through all combinations of two items in a
list. Here is my code:

    list<Instance*>::iterator i;
    for (i = instances.begin(); i != --instances.end(); i++)
    {
        list<Instance*>::iterator j;
        for (j = i + 1; j < instances.end(); j++)
        {
            // Do something!
        }
    }

I get a big error message at i + 1.


Such an operation is only defined for random-access iterators, and the
list iterator isn't one.

 > I got a similar message when I

wrote
i != instances.end() -1, but fixed this by writing --instances.end().

My question what must I write instead of i + 1?


Duplicate it and increment. Something like

   // presume the list does not change
   list<Instance*>::iterator i = instances.begin(),
                             last = --instances.end(),
                             e = instances.end();
   for (; i != last; ++i)
   {
     list<Instance*>::iterator j = i;
     while (++j != e)
     {
         // Do something
     }
   }

V
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