STL list/map - rest size

[Thomas Kowalski]

Hi everyone,
I would like if there is an easy way to get the number of elements left
after an given iterator?
I have an interator called it somethere between beginning and end of an
list / map and want to know how often I have to call ++it before I
arrive at the end of the list. Means how many elements are left after
the given iterator it. My first solution (see below) is quite
inefficent.

int restsize()
{
int i=0;
T::iterator it2 = it;
for ( ;it2 != somelistormap.e nd(); ++it2)
{
++i;
}
return i;
}

[Victor Bazarov]

Thomas Kowalski wrote:

I would like if there is an easy way to get the number of elements
left after an given iterator?

Why? What are you trying to accomplish by that?

I have an interator called it somethere between beginning and end of
an list / map and want to know how often I have to call ++it before I
arrive at the end of the list. Means how many elements are left after
the given iterator it. My first solution (see below) is quite
inefficent.

int restsize()
{
int i=0;
T::iterator it2 = it;
for ( ;it2 != somelistormap.e nd(); ++it2)
{
++i;
}
return i;
}

You can take the last element and then see 'std::distance' , but it will
most likely do the same increment, since std::map iterators are not of
the random-access kind.

V
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[Thomas Kowalski]

Hi Victor,

Why? What are you trying to accomplish by that?

Need it to set the size of the return datastructure X. X is specified
stupidly.

You can take the last element and then see 'std::distance' , but it will
most likely do the same increment, since std::map iterators are not of
the random-access kind.

At least its a cleaner :) Thanks.

Regards,
Thomas Kowalski