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ostringstream - not working?? What's wrong with my code?

Hi Experts,

I have the code below. If I have 100 items in my vector, I'm only getting back 29 of them when i look at the result of oss.str().... is there something wrong with this code? Thank you!

std::vector<std::string> Result
vector<float> VEC = GetVectorOfFloatsThatGives100Items();

ostringstream oss;
oss.clear();
for(unsigned int i = 0; i < VEC.size(); i++)
{
	oss << VEC[i];
	if(i + 1 < VEC.size())
		oss << "|";
}
oss.flush();
Result.push_back(oss.str());

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Infinity08

If you print VEC.size(), what do you get ?

How do you output the result ?

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jkr

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thready

ASKER

haha, it's more typing. but you're definitely about to tell me a very wise and experienced answer of why it's better to use the iterator. Aren't you jkr? :)

jkr

I don't really have a wiser explanation ready other than it's the way that 'feels' better - it's a habit for me to access STL containers via their iterators, simply because it is the most common way to do that for all containers. Yet I was curuois if that made a difference or yielded the same results.

thready

ASKER

lol. it feels better? :). You've taught me a lot jkr. I'm almost disappointed! I was sure you were gonna come up with some very subtle and interesting scenario where with unicode or some com container opting to wrap my code in a cloud over a quantumly encrypted connection.... ok maybe I'm exaggerating a bit... but you know what I mean... :)

thready

ASKER

definitely feels better. gotta admit

jkr

Well, if it also works ;o)

evilrix

std::vector<std::string> Result
vector<float> VEC = GetVectorOfFloatsThatGives100Items();

ostringstream oss;
std::copy(VEC.begin(), VEC.end(), ostream_iterator<float>(oss, "|"))
Result.push_back(oss.str());
Result.back().resize(Result.back().size()-1); // remove training "|"

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/std/iterator/ostream_iterator/