Re: Initialize std::vector<T>::iterator with arbitrary element?
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<dae03e12-31c3-4336-a576-6d31990d3ff7@e37g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>,
Rune Allnor <allnor@tele.ntnu.no> writes
Hi all.
Suppose I have a vector v,
std::vector<T> v;
and corresponding iterator i
std::vector<T>::iterator i;
Now I want to initalize i to point to some
arbitrary element v[n] in the vector.
What is the best practice way to do this
initialization? I have only seen initalizations
to either v.begin() or v.end().
One naive idea - which even compiles - is
i = v.begin() + n;
That's fine (and efficient) for a random-access iterator.
However, table 7.6 in Josuttis' "The C++ Standard Library"
indicates there should be a way to index reative to
the iterator, something like
std::vector<T>::iterator j=i[n];
ITYM T t = i[n];
If correct, I would expect that something like
i = (v.begin())[n];
also would work. Which it doesn't. So did I
misunderstand something?
A level of indirection. i[n] returns a reference to an element of the
vector, not an iterator.
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