C++ question

[RichieZ]

Lets say you have a pointer to a linked list, from doing the following:

list<int> *L1;
L1 = new list<int>();

how do you access the functions provided by the list STL?

When I try and do:
L1.push_back(5);

I get this error:
...\Part1.cpp(15) : error C2228: left of '.push_back' must have class/struct/union type

Any help?

 

[Ameesh]

pointers use arrows


foo->bar()

 

[RichieZ]

argggh thanks, it's been a while.

 

[Ameesh]

you're welcome

 

[Noriaki]

You could do (*foo).bar() to if you wanted to.
foo->bar() is cleaner especially if you had nested, and stylistically better.