Hi! everyone, I have 3 functions that reads some data from a string and stores it in a vector list. The 3 functions are for storing in a string vector, int vector and a float vector. I want to make these 3 functions as a general templatised version, but was unable to do it. I am getting compile errors. Can anyone suggest a way to do this? These are the 3 functions.

void ReadStringData( const string &readstring, std::vector<string> &_list );
void ReadFloatData( string &readstring, std::vector<float> &_list);
void ReadIntData( str &readstring, std::vector<uint32_t> &_list);

I have created a generic template function but can't seem to make it work.

template<typename T1,typename T2>
void ReadData(const T1& data, T2& list)
{
        int32_t lastPos = 0;
	for (size_t i=0; i<data.length(); ++i)
	{
		int32_t pos = data.find(delimiter_colon, 0, lastPos);
		
		if (0 == data.length())
		{
			break;
		}
		
		if (1 != pos)
		{
			string temp = data.substr(lastPos, pos-lastPos);
			list.push_back(temp);
			lastPos = pos+1;
		}
	}
}

How do i call this function with proper arguments? Any inputs will be very helpful. Cheers! Happy holidays.

A code that compiles:



Actually, what you want to achieve is impossible...You cannot store a string instance in a vector of floats. Your code will only compile for a container of string, that has a member function template< typename T, template< typename > class allocator > void Container< T, allocator< T > >::push_back( T const & ).

Hence,

Quote:Original post by johnstanp
A code that compiles:

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Actually, what you want to achieve is impossible...You cannot store a string instance in a vector of floats. Your code will only compile for a container of string, that has a member function template< typename T, template< typename > class allocator > void Container< T, allocator< T > >::push_back( T const & ).

Hence,

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I understand that, actually that implementation was for the strings vector version and i forgot to change it in the template version.

Thanks a lot to both of you for your suggestions. [smile]