creating a map from two vectors

Question

If I have two stl vectors vect1, vect2 and I want to produce from them a map, so first element from vect1 will correspond to first element in vect2 and so on. How can I do that in the most simple way?

Answer 1

Here is a solution that uses standard library functions (and C++0x lambdas).

const int data1[] = { 0, 2, 4, 6, 8 };
const int data2[] = { 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 };
std::vector<int> vec1(data1, data1 + 5);
std::vector<int> vec2(data2, data2 + 5);
std::map<int,int> map;

// create map
std::transform(vec1.begin(), vec1.end(), vec2.begin(), std::inserter(map, map.end()), [](int a, int b)
{
    return std::make_pair(a, b);
});

// display map
std::for_each(map.begin(), map.end(), [](const std::pair<int,int>& p)
{
    std::cout << p.first << "," << p.second << "\n";
});

Note: This assumes vec1.size() is not greater than vec2.size().