How to get position of a certain element in strings vector, to use it as an index in ints vector?
To get a position of an element in a vector knowing an iterator pointing to the element, simply subtract v.begin()
from the iterator:
ptrdiff_t pos = find(Names.begin(), Names.end(), old_name_) - Names.begin();
Now you need to check pos
against Names.size()
to see if it is out of bounds or not:
if(pos >= Names.size()) {
//old_name_ not found
}
vector iterators behave in ways similar to array pointers; most of what you know about pointer arithmetic can be applied to vector iterators as well.
Starting with C++11 you can use std::distance
in place of subtraction for both iterators and pointers:
ptrdiff_t pos = distance(Names.begin(), find(Names.begin(), Names.end(), old_name_));
If you want an index, you can use std::find
in combination with std::distance
.
auto it = std::find(Names.begin(), Names.end(), old_name_);
if (it == Names.end())
{
// name not in vector
} else
{
auto index = std::distance(Names.begin(), it);
}