Question

I was just looking through stl and noticed that C++ vectors do not have a find(givenElement) type of method. Is there a work around for this?

Answer 1

You can use std::find instead.

std::vector<int> x;
//...
std::find(x.begin(),x.end(),42);

Note that if you have multiple elements of the same value, you only get the first one (but you can change the start iterator accordingly).

Sample http://ideone.com/JADSl