How to print vector's data

Question

I\'ve searched a lot over the internet, and couldent find simple examples to print vector\'s data..

I tried to print it like an array, though it didnt worked...

Answer 1

I found the best way to print a vector is to use some kind of wrapper:

Let's start off with:

template< typename T >
class ConstVecFormat
{
   private:
      std::vector const& vec_;
      const std::string prefix_, delim_, suffix_;

   public:
      explicit ConstVecFormat( std::vector const& vec, prefix="", delim=",", suffix="" ) :
          vec_(vec), prefix_(prefix), delim_(delim), suffix_(suffix_)
      {
      }

      std::ostream& print( std::ostream& os ) const
      {
         typename std::vector::const_iterator iter = vec_.begin(), end=vec_.end();
         os << prefix_;
         if( iter != end )
              os << *iter;
         else 
           while( ++iter != end )
           {
             os << delim_ << *iter;
           }

         os << suffix_;
         return os;
      }
 };

 template< typename T >
 std::ostream & operator<<( std::ostream & os, ConstVecFormat const& format )
 {
     return format.print( os );
 }

This is heading towards being a duplicate of a previous topic where we enhanced this template a lot to produce one more generic for printing collections.