Question

Lets say that I have got a vector like this.

std::vector<a_complicated_whatever_identifier *> *something
    = new std::vector<a_complicated_whatever_identifier *>;
// by the way, is this the right way to do this?

Now I want to get an iterator for this… so I would do this like this.

std::vector<a_complicated_whatever_identifier *>::iterator iter;

But I find it a little too much for my code. I wonder, is there any more, brief way to ask for an iterator regardless of the type?

I was thinking in something like.

something::iterator iter;
    // OK, don’t laugh at me, I am still beginning with C++

Well, it obviously fail, but I guess you get the idea. How to accomplish this or something similar?

Answer 1

Use a typedef.

typedef std::vector<complicated *>::iterator complicated_iter

Then set them like this:

complicated_iter begin, end;