Re: some combination of std::distance/std::max_element ( ? )

From:
Carl Barron <cbarron413@adelphia.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
27 Apr 2006 15:25:17 -0400
Message-ID:
<270420060240390154%cbarron413@adelphia.net>
In article <1146012060.686157.99180@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com>,
ma740988 <ma740988@gmail.com> wrote:

Given a sequence with n elements. For instance:
    double arr [ 6 ] = { 0., 2., 4., 5., 6., 7.}
I'll define - what I call 'test zones' . Within these test zones I'll
seach for _and_ store max values and position found.
For instance: Lets assume 2 test zones. This would equate to:
Zone 1 elements: 0., 2., 4
Zone 2 elements: 5., 6., 7

Max value - zone 1 = 4, location 2 ( element index)
Max value - zone 2 = 7, location 5 ( element index)

The code:


   template <class For1,class For2 ,class Out>
   Out max_of_zones(For1 data_begin,For1 data_end,
       For2 z_begin,For2 z_end, Out out)
    {
// beginning and end of current range
       For1 begin = data_begin;
       For2 end(begin)

       for(;z_begin!=z_end; begin=end, ++out, ++z_begin)
       {
          std::advance(end,*z_begin);
          *out = *std::max_element(begin,end);
       }
       return out;
    }

    Where For1 and For2 are forward iterators [faster if For1 is
actually a random access iterator] and Out is an output iterator.
and For1::value_type has an operator < .

This will work with any STL sequence containers.
    std::vector<int> sizes{3,3};
    std::vector<double> data;
       // place the six values in data.
    std::vector<double> max_of_zone;
    max_zones(data.begin(),data.end(),sizes.begin(),sizes.end(),
       std::ostream_iterator<double>(std::cout,",'));

   will print the max's as a comma separated list.

     Isn't that shorter and easier to read??

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