Re: sorting through a set of doubles
On Jul 28, 4:24 pm, Victor Bazarov <v.Abaza...@comAcast.net> wrote:
Ioannis Gyftos wrote:
On Jul 28, 4:49 pm, pauldepst...@att.net wrote:
Suppose x is of the type std::set<double>
I wanted to do a basic sort on x so that the elements were
in numerical order, in the sense that an iterator
x.begin() would point to the least element and so on.
My command std::sort(x.begin(), x.end()); generated
compiler errors. What should I have done?
Isn't an std::set already sorted?
What were the compiler errors?
http://www.cppreference.com/cppset/index.html
"Iterator is not of random-access kind" would be my bet. And,
of course, no additional sorting of the set is needed, it's
already in the ascending order.
Iterator isn't random access, but also, you can't assign through
it (e.g. *iter = ... isn't legal).
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