Assignment operator and iterators

Hi all!

Sorry for so many questions. If you feel that I'm abusing this board, please say so, and I'll go elsewhere... I typically consult google, cplusplus.com, codeguru, my books, search the forum here, and then fiddle with code before posting. I'm just a bit slow going with learning some of these features :P

In any event, is it possible to return a user-defined object from a list?

This is my dilemma:

I have a list of custom objects. I need to be able to copy one object from the list into another object not in a list.

Ex (assuming the assignment operator for myobject is overloaded):

Code:

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list<myobject> mylist;
list<myobject>::iterator myiter;
myiter = mylist.begin();

myobject standAloneObject;

standAloneObject = myiter; //?? Needs to copy the object where myiter points to into standAloneObject

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Unfortunately, this doesn't work because the compiler states that it can't copy from an iterator object to a myobject type.... I've tried using *myiter to get the object, but evidently that is illegal as well. So, is there any way to get at the object that's stored in the list?

Thanks again for all of your help!

Code:

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list<myobject> mylist;
list<myobject>::iterator myiter;
myiter = mylist.begin();

myobject standAloneObject;

standAloneObject = *myiter;

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This should work.

Hmmm....

Seems to work, which is weird, because I tried that earlier. Maybe I'm just having a case of the Fridays :P

Thanks again! If I can ever be of assistance to anyone on this board, please don't hesitate to contact me. You guys have been so wonderful to me! :)

An iterator is supposed to look and feel similar to a pointer. Just as you dereference pointers, you also "dereference" iterators.