Re: STL: Could you make this snippet more efficient

From:
"Daniel T." <daniel_t@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:23:38 -0500
Message-ID:
<daniel_t-E20852.18233803122007@earthlink.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net>
pedagani@gmail.com wrote:

Could you make this snippet more efficient? As you see I have too many
variables introduced in the code.

//Read set of integers from a file on line by line basis in a STL set
//fp is pre-defined
for(;!fp.eof();)
{
    string linestr;
    getline(fp,linestr);
    istringstream strstreamline(linestr);
        istream_iterator<unsigned int> intstream(strstreamline);
    set<unsigned int> pckset;
    copy ( intstream , istream_iterator<unsigned int>() ,
inserter(modpckset,modpckset.begin ( ) ));
}

Thanks in advance.


First let's clean up the code you have.

set< unsigned int > modpckset; // has to be defined outside the loop
string line;
while ( getline( fp, line ) ) // proper way to read until end of file
{
   istringstream ss( line );
   copy( istream_iterator< unsigned int >( ss ),
      istream_iterator< unsigned int >(),
      inserter( modpckset, modpckset.begin() ) );
}

With the above code, getline will read in a line of the file at a time,
then parse it out to a bunch of unsigned ints. We don't need to do the
extra step:

   set< unsigned int > modpckset;
   copy( istream_iterator< unsigned int >( fp ),
      istream_iterator< unsigned int >(),
      inserter( modpckset, modpckset.begin() ) );

The above will do the same thing.

Now, if your goal was to read each line into a separate set, say you
want to end up with a vector of sets, then you would need to read each
line separately.

   vector< set< unsigned int > > all_sets;
   string line;
   while ( getline( fp, line ) )
   {
      istringstream ss( line );
      all_sets.push_back( set< unsigned int >() );
      copy( istream_iterator< unsigned int >( ss ),
        istream_iterator< unsigned int >(),
        inserter( all_sets.back(), all_sets.back().begin() ) );
   }

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