Re: Could Use Guidance from the Experts
On 5/20/2014 6:52 PM, Mogo Mojo wrote:
I'm pretty new to C++, using this group and a Safari InformIT membership as my primary learning resources. I have a difficult time learning without a programming problem that "feels" real (don't really get motivated by Dogs.bark(), I knew that before I started learning a programming language).
That being said, I wrote a small program that I can actually use in my day job. It works and I learned a lot struggling through it, but I was hoping you guys could point out where I could improve it, make it more efficient, and possibly catch bad habits I may be forming. Especially looking for a better solution than my nested for loops in getActiveList().
I do testing at companies and need to pull random names from a list of employees. I also have a list of currently laid off employee IDs. The idea is to pull those lists, compare them and end up with a random list of n currently active employees. I can do this with an Access query, but my laptop doesn't have Access. This allows me to pull a random name on site from my laptop if one of the selected employees is absent.
Sort the Active and NonActive list vectors. Then run through them together.
Something like (PSEUDOCODE WILL NOT COMPILE):
sort(a.begin(), a.end());
sort(na.begin(), na.end());
vector::iterator a_iter = a.begin();
vector::iterator na_iter = na.begin();
while (a_iter != a.end() && na_iter != na_end())
{
if (a_iter->name == na_iter->name)
{
a_iter->active = false;
++a_iter;
++na_iter;
}
else if (a_iter->name < na_iter->name)
a_iter->active = true;
++a_iter;
}
else // a > na
{
++na_iter;
}
}
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