How do you get a certain element like "5" of a list?

[homsta]

I can't find anything about getting a certain element of a list. I have a get_elem() function that takes in an int, meaning if the int was "5" I want to return whatever is in the "5" element. I figure I have to use an iterator because that's just how lists work, but I can't find anything other than maybe using distance()

[Moschops]

This iwll do it.

...
int i=0;
while (i<theOneYouWant)
{
  thatIterator++;
  i++;
}
return *thatIterator;

[Athar]

The function is called advance:

  auto it=list.begin();
  advance(it,4);
  cout << *it << endl; //prints the 5th element 

But you should be aware that this has linear complexity for lists.

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/std/iterator/advance/

[homsta]

Thanks to both of you!