Finding minimum value in a Map
- by Sunny
I have a map and I want to find the minimum value (right hand side) in the map. Right now here is how I did it
bool compare(std::pair<std::string ,int> i, pair<std::string, int> j) {
return i.second < j.second;
}
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std::map<std::string, int> mymap;
mymap["key1"] = 50;
mymap["key2"] = 20;
mymap["key3"] = 100;
std::pair<char, int> min = *min_element(mymap.begin(), mymap.end(), compare);
std::cout << "min " << min.second<< " " << std::endl;
This works fine and I'm able to get the minimum value the problem is when I put this code inside my class it doesn't seem to work
int MyClass::getMin(std::map<std::string, int> mymap) {
std::pair<std::string, int> min = *min_element(mymap.begin(), mymap.end(),
(*this).compare);
//error probably due to this
return min.second;
}
bool MyClass::compare(
std::pair<std::string, int> i, std::pair<std::string, int> j) {
return i.second < j.second;
}
Also is there a better solution not involving to writing the additional compare function
