How to search for an element in an stl list?

Question

Is there a find() function for list as there was in vector?

Is there a way to do that in list?

Answer 1

No, not directly in the std::list template itself. You can however use std::find algorithm like that:

std::list my_list;
//...
int some_value = 12;
std::list::iterator iter = std::find (my_list.begin(), my_list.end(), some_value);
// now variable iter either represents valid iterator pointing to the found element,
// or it will be equal to my_list.end()