How to compare two vectors for equality element by element in C++?

C++11 standard on == for std::vector

Others have mentioned that operator== does compare vector contents and works, but here is a quote from the C++11 N3337 standard draft which I believe implies that.

We first look at Chapter 23.2.1 "General container requirements", which documents things that must be valid for all containers, including therefore std::vector.

That section Table 96 "Container requirements" which contains an entry:

Expression   Operational semantics
===========  ======================
a == b       distance(a.begin(), a.end()) == distance(b.begin(), b.end()) &&
             equal(a.begin(), a.end(), b.begin())

The distance part of the semantics means that the size of both containers are the same, but stated in a generalized iterator friendly way for non random access addressable containers. distance() is defined at 24.4.4 "Iterator operations".

Then the key question is what does equal() mean. At the end of the table we see:

Notes: the algorithm equal() is defined in Clause 25.

and in section 25.2.11 "Equal" we find its definition:

template<class InputIterator1, class InputIterator2>
bool equal(InputIterator1 first1, InputIterator1 last1,
           InputIterator2 first2);

template<class InputIterator1, class InputIterator2,
class BinaryPredicate>
bool equal(InputIterator1 first1, InputIterator1 last1,
           InputIterator2 first2, BinaryPredicate pred);

1 Returns: true if for every iterator i in the range [first1,last1) the following corresponding conditions hold: *i == *(first2 + (i - first1)), pred(*i, *(first2 + (i - first1))) != false. Otherwise, returns false.

In our case, we care about the overloaded version without BinaryPredicate version, which corresponds to the first pseudo code definition *i == *(first2 + (i - first1)), which we see is just an iterator-friendly definition of "all iterated items are the same".

Similar questions for other containers:

• how to compare two std::set?

Your code (vector1 == vector2) is correct C++ syntax. There is an == operator for vectors.

If you want to compare short vector with a portion of a longer vector, you can use theequal() operator for vectors. (documentation here)

Here's an example:

using namespace std;

if( equal(vector1.begin(), vector1.end(), vector2.begin()) )
    DoSomething();

Check std::mismatch method of C++.

comparing vectors has been discussed on DaniWeb forum and also answered.

C++: Comparing two vectors

Check the below SO post. will helpful for you. they have achieved the same with different-2 method.

Compare two vectors C++