Question

I have a vector (order is important) of objects (lets call them myobj class) where I’m trying to delete multiple objects at a time.

class vectorList
{

    vector<*myobj> myList; 
};

class myobj
{

    char* myName;
    int index;
    bool m_bMarkedDelete;
}

I was thinking that the best way to do this would be to mark specific myobj objects for deletion and then call myList.remove_if() on the vector. However, I’m not exactly sure how to use predicates and such for this. Should I create a member variable in the object which allows me to say that I want to delete the myobj and then create a predicate which checks to see if the member variable was set?

How do I implement the predicate as a part of the vectorList class?

Answer 1

Should I create a member variable in the object which allows me to say
that I want to delete the myobj and then create a predicate which
checks to see if the member variable was set?

Haven’t you already done that? Isn’t that what m_bMarkedDelete is for? You would write the predicate like this:

bool IsMarkedToDelete(const myobj & o)
{
    return o.m_bMarkedDelete;
}

Then:

myList.erase(
    std::remove_if(myList.begin(), myList.end(), IsMarkedToDelete),
    myList.end());

Or, using lambdas:

myList.erase(
    std::remove_if(myList.begin(), myList.end(),
        [](const myobj & o) { return o.m_bMarkedDelete; }),
    myList.end());

If your class doesn’t actually have that member, and you’re asking us if it should, then I would say no. What criteria did you use to decide to mark it for deletion? Use that same criteria in your predicate, for example:

bool IndexGreaterThanTen(const myobj & o)
{
    return o.index > 10;
}

note — The functions I’ve written are of course invalid since all your members are private. So you’ll need some way to access them.