vector, get index from iterator

[Christopher]

Seems odd, but I was wondering if I am in the middle of iterating
through a vector, is there a way to calc which index I am currently
on? something like: it - vec.begin()?

I don't want to change the loop to iterate through using indexes
instead of iterators, I just need the index for a little debug output,
the rest of the code in the loop uses the iterator.

thanks.

[Victor Bazarov]

Christopher wrote:

Seems odd, but I was wondering if I am in the middle of iterating
through a vector, is there a way to calc which index I am currently
on? something like: it - vec.begin()?

Absolutely! Since vector's iterators are of 'random access' kind,
the binary minus is defined for them to give the distance. For
all others you can use 'std::distance'.

I don't want to change the loop to iterate through using indexes
instead of iterators, I just need the index for a little debug output,
the rest of the code in the loop uses the iterator.

No need to justify yourself :-)

V
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[Andre Kostur]

Christopher <cp***@austin.rr.comwrote in news:c6f679ff-5c3d-4af2-ac81-
18**********@f3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com:

Seems odd, but I was wondering if I am in the middle of iterating
through a vector, is there a way to calc which index I am currently
on? something like: it - vec.begin()?

That would work for vector... but a more general method would be:

std::distance(vec.begin(), it);

I don't want to change the loop to iterate through using indexes
instead of iterators, I just need the index for a little debug output,
the rest of the code in the loop uses the iterator.

Or, maintain the index as you are iterating through:

for (it = vec.begin(), i = 0; it != vec.end(); ++it, ++i) {
}