vector search and replace

Hi,
i got a vector<int> of values 12,49,51,98

i wanted to search for value 12 and replace it with another value like 42.

is there any vector function to search and replace straight away?

rather than manually looping and checking and then replacing.

There's find, which will find an element.

Perhaps the std::replace() function?

>> is there any vector function

You'll find that many of the functions you want to use that work on vector and other standard containers are not member functions. Instead they are non-member functions that are made to be generic so that they can work on many different container classes. A lot of these functions can be found in the <algorithm> header, including std::find and std::replace.

Note that a vector isn't sorted (unless you do it), so if you are trying to maintain a sorted ordering you'd have to be careful about what you replace with what.

If you want to replace the one particular element with the given value then tabstop's suggestion of std::find() would be most appropriate.

thanks for reply.


my program was all the while acesing the vector by index only. and the find function uses iterators. i got redesign my program now.

# was my program design wrong of using vector by index search and not using iterator?
any way to use find without using iterator?

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Originally Posted by rahulsk1947

my program was all the while acesing the vector by index only. and the find function uses iterators. i got redesign my program now.

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You do not have to re-design your program. You can get the corresponding index of the vector from an iterator by subtracting an iterator to the first element of the vector, i.e., by using the begin() member function.