Wolf Kirchmeir wrote: Mark Mathu wrote: "Howard R Garner" <cascaderail@bellsouth.net> wrote in message news:Yg27j.13845$Mu4.7096@bignews7.bellsouth.net... If the 1953 edition is a revised edition it must have been publised under a different title. Thanks... so Hay's comment in the book referring to "current maximum" is probably based on 1953 practice

Angus Comber wrote: I have a list like below: std::list<int> mylist; I just want to extract say the second item in the list. how do I do that? Eg send in index myval = mylist[index]; If you need random access to elements, then std::vector or std::deque will be more appropriate. For std::list you don't have any choice but iterating through nodes from the beginning

Angus Comber <nospam@gmail.com> wrote: I have a list like below: std::list<int> mylist; I just want to extract say the second item in the list. how do I do that? std::list<int>::iterator it; advance(it, index); int elem = *it; If you plan to do this often, understand that list is precisely the wrong kind of container to perform random access on. Consider vector or deque