deleting element objects of a std vector using erase : a) memory handling and b) better way?
- by memC
hi,
I have a vec_A that stores instances of class A as: vec_A.push_back(A());
I want to remove some elements in the vector at a later stage and have two questions: a) The element is deleted as: vec_A.erase(iterator) Is there any additional code I need to add to make sure that there is no memory leak? .
b) Assume that condition if(num <5) is if num is among a specific numberList. Given this, is there a better way to delete the elements of a vector than what I am illustrating below?
#include<vector>
#include<stdio.h>
#include<iostream>
class A {
public:
int getNumber();
A(int val);
~A(){};
private:
int num;
};
A::A(int val){
num = val;
};
int A::getNumber(){
return num;
};
int main(){
int i =0;
int num;
std::vector<A> vec_A;
std::vector<A>::iterator iter;
for ( i = 0; i < 10; i++){
vec_A.push_back(A(i));
}
iter = vec_A.begin();
while(iter != vec_A.end()){
std::cout << "\n --------------------------";
std::cout << "\n Size before erase =" << vec_A.size();
num = iter->getNumber() ;
std::cout << "\n num = "<<num;
if (num < 5){
vec_A.erase(iter);
}
else{
iter++;
}
std::cout << "\n size after erase =" << vec_A.size();
}
std::cout << "\nPress RETURN to continue...";
std::cin.get();
return 0;
}
