filling a vector with pairs

[Natural_Bugger]

hi there,

I'm filling this vector with pages of a book.

    float mid = (float)n / 2; // n = the number of pages
    int pages = 0;
    std::vector<pair<int, int>> pagesVec;
    for(int i = 0; i = mid; i++){
        if(pages >= n){
            pagesVec.emplace_back(pages , 0); // books holds an even number of pages, an empty page should be added.
            break;
        }
        else{
            pagesVec.emplace_back(pages , pages++);
            pages++;
        }
    }

the problem is in the for loop definition.

for(int i = 0; i < n; i++){ // adds to many pages
for(int i = 0; i < mid; i++){ // works pretty good, but ...
for(int i = 0; i = mid; i++){

this is how it should look, but depending on the number of a pages a book has.
(empty,1)(2,3)(4,5) < --- odd number of pages, no empty page on the back.
or
(empty,1)(2,3)(4,5)(6.empty) < --- even number of pages, zero denotes empty page

would anyone know a better way or more efficient to fill the vector of pairs with pages?

4 page book looks like this (good):

// using for(int i = 0; i = mid; i++){
first;1second: 0
first;3second: 2
first;4second: 0

a 5 page looks like this (good):

// using for(int i = 0; i < mid; i++){
first;1second: 0
first;3second: 2
first;5second: 4

a 5 page looks like this (bad):

// using for(int i = 0; i = mid; i++){
first;1second: 0
first;3second: 2
first;5second: 4
first;6second: 0 // to much

a 5 page looks like this (bad):

// using for(int i = 0; i = n; i++){
first;1second: 0
first;3second: 2
first;5second: 4
first;6second: 0

p.s. i don't get it, why the first pair, first value is 1 and the second is 0 "pages++"

kind regards.

[JonB]

@Natural_Bugger
I'm sorry I am not the brightest at understanding what people are trying to do from their explanations, and I don't get whatever your problem is here, but here are some observations about what is wrong in what you show:

• float mid = (float)n / 2; // n = the number of pages: There are never a "floating number of pages" in a book! Please make mid an int, you should have no floats in your code. Depending on which way you want to round an odd or even number, you probably want int mid = (n + 1) / 2 (round an odd up to half of the next even).

• for(int i = 0; i = mid; i++): i = mid can never be correct. The middle argument in a for() must always be a condition. for(int i = 0; i < mid; i++) looks better.

• pagesVec.emplace_back(pages , pages++);: You must never do this in C/C++. You cannot tell whether the first occurrence of pages here has the value of pages before or after the second argument, pages++, has been evaluated.

I suspect you're making something much more complex than is needed? Why any mid at all? Don't you just want something like:

for (int i = 1; i < n; i += 2)
    pagesVec.emplace_back(i - 1, i);

EDIT let me see if I can understand what you want:

(empty,1)(2,3)(4,5) < --- odd number of pages, no empty page on the back.
(empty,1)(2,3)(4,5)(6.empty) < --- even number of pages, zero denotes empty page

In the first case n == 5, in the second n == 6. So one way would be:

if (n > 0)
    for (int i = 1; i <= n + 1; i += 2)
        pagesVec.emplace_back(i - 1, (i <= n) ? i : 0);

[Natural_Bugger]

@JonB said in filling a vector with pairs:

thnx very much for your answer

for (int i = 1; i <= n + 1; i += 2)
        pagesVec.emplace_back(i - 1, (i <= n) ? i : 0);

that solved the issue