Re: [Boost-users] [boost.multiindex] Recommended way of having a list ofkeys to a multi-index container

From: Charles Tolman (ct_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-12-20 08:45:07

Joaquín Mª López Muñoz <joaquin <at> tid.es> writes:

> So, if I'm following you, you are trying to get a data structure such that
> 
>   c.find(str)
> 
> finds an element if *any* of the strings in its vector<MyStringType> member
> is equal to str. Is that right? 

Correct.

> If so, Boost.MultiIndex does not handle directly
> such an scenario. As you point out, you'd have to resort to an adhoc
> structure holding some sort of references to the elements, as many
> references to the same element as entries held by its vector member.

Yep. Thats what I thought. In retrospect I am going to have a look at the use
cases for it as the problem could be handled slightly differently.

But thanks for the replay and confirming my thoughts.

All the best
Charles