Add elememt(s) from object A to obect B

Suppose I have two classes - Deck and Pile and I created 2 obects inside the Pile class

Code:

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Deck MyDeck;          // Instantiate a Deck object.
       
Pile MyPile;          // Instantiate a Pile object.

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If MyDeck contains 52 cards, What should I do if i want to add 13 cards from MyDeck to MyPile?

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MyDeck.copy13CardsTo(&MyPile);

I see, this should be the format of copying the elements from object A to object B.

Do I need to include some specific header?

Just out of curiosity, what's the difference between a deck and a pile? Having separate Deck and Pile classes seems somewhat redundant to me.

Because i am writing a soliatire game
The Deck class is those cards which the player click the upper-left corner.
The Pile class is those card the user can place it from the Deck class.

Do you know any STL Lists method that i can copy the cards to object B?
i am looking the MSDN guide, but still no idea..

>The Deck class is those cards which the player click the upper-left corner.
>The Pile class is those card the user can place it from the Deck class.
And the need for two classes is <speculation>because you failed to make the Deck class generic enough to handle "piles" of cards rather than "decks" of 52 poker cards</speculation>?

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Originally Posted by joenching

Do you know any STL Lists method that i can copy the cards to object B?
i am looking the MSDN guide, but still no idea..

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Assuming you have cards in a <vector>, you could use copy() like this:

Code:

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int nums[]={1, 2, 3, 4, 5};

vector<int> source(nums, nums+5);
vector<int> destination(5);

copy(source.begin(), source.begin() + 2, destination.begin() + 3);

cout<<destination[4]<<endl; //2

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#include <vector>

Would you pls explain (what source.begin() + 2, destination.begin() + 3) for?

source.begin() is what's called an iterator, which is a smart pointer or an object that acts like a pointer but hides the complexity of what it's actually doing, e.g. opening up three phone lines retrieving data over a network, organizing the data, and finally giving you a pointer to the data. So, source.begin() is like a pointer to the first thing in the vector. If you are familiar with pointer arithmetic, you can add integers to a pointer to move along the data when the pointer points to an array or vector. That works because the data for an array or a vector is contiguous in memory. So, source.begin() + 2 is a pointer to the 3rd element in the vector.

destination.begin() + 3 is a pointer to the fourth element of the destination vector, and it is the spot where copying begins. Note that the range:

source.begin(), source.begin() + 2

includes the value at source.begin() but does not include the value at source.begin() + 2. source.begin() + 2 is a pointer to one element past the last element included in the range. So, the range there will include the thing at source[0] and source[1] but not source[2].

Thanks for helping.
it's quiet good.!