Erasing from vectors

[Praetorx]

say I have:

vector<string> list;

which contains the words:

the
and
fry
bug
pie

and I want to remove bug, but I didn't know its exact position in the vector (I don't know the order of this list before running the program), how would I do that?

[Shinigami]

search and find position. And delete.

[Praetorx]

and I would do that.. how?

[Shinigami]

Take first in vector and compare, if not it look to second and so on. Until the end off vector.

[kbw]

You should use find to locate the string and delete that.

typedef std::vector<std::string> stringlist_t;
//...
stringlist_t::iterator p = std::find(list.begin(), list.end(), "bug");
if (p != list.end())
{
    // we found the position of bug
    list.erase(p);
}

[vlad from moscow]

It can be done in one line

list.erase( std::find( v.begin(), v.end(). "bug" ) );

[Praetorx]

thank you