Working with ranges of scalar values

[Bob Hairgrove]

Hello,

Is there an STL class for working with contiguous ranges of things? I
can write one myself, but it would be nice if there were something
standard I could use -- don't like to re-invent the wheel. Boost
doesn't seem to have this, or have I overlooked something?

For example, I could implement a time range by storing either the
start and end times or the start time and number of seconds. Then I
would have member functions to calculate whether time A was contained
within the range, whether another range intersects it, etc.

TIA

 

[Ivan Vecerina]

Is there an STL class for working with contiguous ranges of things? I
can write one myself, but it would be nice if there were something
standard I could use -- don't like to re-invent the wheel. Boost
doesn't seem to have this, or have I overlooked something?

Nothing in the STL. But you may have overlooked boost's interval library:
http://www.boost.org/libs/numeric/interval/doc/interval.htm

hth - Ivan