Removing items from STL map without deletion?
*iter "gets" without deleting.
erase(iter) deletes without getting.
The following should do what you want.....
// WARNING untested code ahead
template <typename T>
T get(typename T::iterator iter)
{
T t = *iter;
erase(iter);
return (t);
}
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Quote:
>I may be completely confused here but I only see methods for
>erasing(deleting) contained objects. There seem to to be no way to remove
>objects without deletion. The "remove" algorigthm makes even less sense.
>I have used Rogue Wave before and most of its collection classes provide a
>get() method to pop the stored object out of the collection. How can one
>accomplish that with STL map or set
>Zia Bhatti
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