Sequential Container

Notes from C++ Primer

Initialization

When copy a container to another, the container type and element type must be match at the same time:

vector<int> ivec;
vector<int> ivec2(ivec);		// ok: ivec is vector<int>
list<int> ilist(ivec);			// error: ivec is not ilist<int>
vector<double> dvec(ivec);		// error: ivec holds int not double

Use iterator to intialize container:

// initialize slist with copy of each element of svec
list<string> slist(svec.begin(), svec.end());

// find midpoint in the vector
vector<string>::iterator mid = svec.begin() + svec.size() / 2;

// initialize front with first half of svec: the elements up to but not including *mid
deque<string> front(svec.begin(), mid);

// initialize front with second half of svec: the elements *mid through end of svec
deque<string> back(mid, svec.end());