Erase/Remove contents from the map (or any other STL container) while iterating it

Question

Allegedly you cannot just erase/remove an element in a container while iterating as iterator becomes invalid. What are the (safe) ways to remove the elements that meet a cer

Answer 1

Example with std::vector

#include 

using namespace std;

int main()
{

   typedef vector  int_vector;

   int_vector v(10);

   // Fill as: 0,1,2,0,1,2 etc
   for (size_t i = 0; i < v.size(); ++i){
      v[i] = i % 3;
   }

   // Remove every element where value == 1    
   for (int_vector::iterator it = v.begin(); it != v.end(); /* BLANK */){
      if (*it == 1){
         it = v.erase(it);
      } else {
         ++it;
      }
   }

}