Hi guys, I'm not understanding why if I want to initiate an array and pass over it, I should reach array.end() and not reaching the last element .. why?! I mean it's not efficient to reach the array.end() if I could stop in the last element in the vector without reaching the array.end() ! ..any clue why we are using array.end()?
thanks alot
Write a loop condition and it'll become obvious.
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I know array.end() is the element after the last element, but my question is why I need to reach to the element after last element, I can just reach the last element ..without reaching to the element that's after last element which is array.end()
loop condition, whatever? it wouldn't help ... because I already know at array.end() we stop but my question why specifically we need this? we could just need the last element ..without the element after last element
Post your code.
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Despite trying to program for years, you still don't even have the sense to try writing a loop with end() and another loop with end() - 1 and investigate the differences. If you had done that, you would understand why end() returns a one-past-the-end iterator instead of an iterator to the actual last element, but instead you chose to just say "it wouldn't help". Of course it wouldn't help: you didn't even try it.
By definition, there is no element after the last element. The point of a one-past-the-end iterator is to make it easy to iterate over the entire range, i.e., you keep looping as long as you aren't one-past-the-end. It also allows you to elegantly define an empty range, i.e., the range in which begin() == end(). But of course, this doesn't help. Nothing helps someone who doesn't actually want to learn how to program.
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