lib/moveitor.cpp

The following code example is taken from the book
C++ Move Semantics - The Complete Guide by Nicolai M. Josuttis, Leanpub, 2020
The code is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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// raw code

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <list>
#include <vector>

template<typename T>
void print(const std::string& name, const T& coll)
{
  std::cout << name << " (" << coll.size() << " elems): ";
  for (const auto& elem : coll) {
    std::cout << " \"" << elem << "\"";
  }
  std::cout << "\n";
}

int main()
{
  std::list<std::string> src{"don't", "vote", "for", "liars"};
  
  // move all elements from the list to the vector:
  std::vector<std::string> vec{std::make_move_iterator(src.begin()),
                               std::make_move_iterator(src.end())};

  print("src", src);
  print("vec", vec);
}