Nov 28 2009

Remove items from deque, list or vector in a loop

Category: C++Kristou Mehrez @ 12:42 am

Recently I needed to delete items from a sequence like a deque , list or vector from a for loop, I figured out that I have to do something like this:

for(iter = list.begin(); iter != list.end(); ++iter)
{
// your code
iter = list.erase(iter);
--iter;
// your code
}

It looks basic but it took me a while to figure it out so I wanted to share in case somebody need it.


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