I am confused...

[Kitty]

Is it possible to know the relative position of a given element, say x, in
the container? Assume x is unique.

For example,

vector<int> v;
v.push_back(10);
v.push_back(20);
v.push_back(30);
v.push_back(40);
v.push_back(50);

Then the position of element 50 relative to 20 is +3. Actually, how to find
this relative position? Thanks.

[alexmdac]

Yes it is! Well it is for a sequence container such as a list or a
vector. Use std::find to get iterators to both the elements. Then use
std::distance to get the distance between them.

[Kitty]

How about using "-" to calculate the distance?
Thanks.

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Yes it is! Well it is for a sequence container such as a list or a
vector. Use std::find to get iterators to both the elements. Then use
std::distance to get the distance between them.

[David Harmon]

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 19:54:38 +0800 in comp.lang.c++, "Kitty" <No
spam> wrote,

How about using "-" to calculate the distance?
Thanks.

OK for vector::iterator or other random access iterator types.
Will fail for more complicated iterator types where std::distance
still does the right thing.