Re: How to get the iterator for a value less than the key specified?

From:
Carl Barron <cbarron413@adelphia.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
8 Jun 2006 18:48:18 -0400
Message-ID:
<070620062042194677%cbarron413@adelphia.net>
In article <1149705725.330627.276230@h76g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
Albert Jin <albert.jin@gmail.com> wrote:

Neither of the two methods, lower_bound and upper_bound, for std::set
does return the iterator less than the key specified. Is there a
better way to approach this?

template <typename Set>
typename Set::const_reverse_iterator less_lower_bound(Set const & set,
typename Set::const_reference key) {
    Set::key_compare key_comp = set.key_comp();
    Set::const_reverse_iterator i = set.rbegin();
    for (; i != set.rend(); ++i) {
        if (!key_comp(key, *i)) {
            break;
        }
    }
    return i;
}


   why not
   template <typename Set>
   typename Set::iterator least_less(Set const &set,typename
Set::const_reference key)
   {
      typename Set::iterator it = set.lower_bound(key);
      if(it != set.begin())
         return --it;
      else
         return set.end();
   }
    if set.end() there is no entry less than key .
??

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