Adding additional functions to the STL vector class

[hopesfall]

How would I add my own function to the vector class?

[Zhuge]

You can't without modifying the class definition itself (don't do this) but you could just make a function that takes a reference to a vector as its first parameter.

[TheIdeasMan]

Hi hopesfall,

Just wondering what you want to do exactly? Is it to do with your word storing program? Hope that is going well.

[theranga]

You could make an inherited child of the vector class, like so:

template< class Type, class Allocator = allocator< Type > >
class extendedVector : public vector<Type,Allocator>
{
// put extra functions here
};

EDIT:

This means that you can use the extendedVector class if you want the extra functions, but the vector class is still untouched.

EDIT 2:

Note that this doesn't give you access to the vector class's private members, which is usually where its actual data is stored