Cram std::map into std:vector

[Jnewg5]

I have a situation (due to time constraints) that I need to cram a std::map into a std::vector. Can anyone help me?

[Jnewg5]

For some reason, the original post parsed out the std:map of (std::string,uint) and std:vector of (byte).

[Stephen Hewitt]

I'm not sure what you mean but I quess perhaps something like this:

typedef std::vector<std::map<..., ...> > VectorOfMaps_t;

The "..."s should be filled in with the types you require in the map. I have used a typedef to avoid having to type the huge type name everywhere and for maintainability. "VectorOfMaps_t" is a bad name really because if I changed the type to a std::deque of std::map's it would become misleading.

Steve

[Stephen Hewitt]

That's a really bad idea. Are you sure this will really save you time?!?!

Steve

[Michael Dunn]

What you're thinking of is called serialization. Look here on CP and MSDN, the topic has been widely covered.

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