How to find out if an item is present in a std::vector?

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Joan Venge picture Joan Venge · Feb 20, 2009 · Viewed 977.5k times · Source

All I want to do is to check whether an element exists in the vector or not, so I can deal with each case.

if ( item_present )
   do_this();
else
   do_that();

Answer

MSN picture MSN · Feb 20, 2009

You can use std::find from <algorithm>:

#include <vector>
vector<int> vec; 
//can have other data types instead of int but must same datatype as item 
std::find(vec.begin(), vec.end(), item) != vec.end()

This returns a bool (true if present, false otherwise). With your example:

#include <algorithm>
#include <vector>

if ( std::find(vec.begin(), vec.end(), item) != vec.end() )
   do_this();
else
   do_that();

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