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["Sebastien Loriot (GeometryFactory)" <>]

Sebastien Loriot (GeometryFactory) wrote:
>  wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have no match calling the functions sort and unique for a list of 3D
> > points (I tried the comparison function  K::Less_xyz_3 for sort). Could
> > you provide me any suggestion?
> > Thank you in advance!
> Hello,
>
> The sort algorithm requires random access iterators.
> Try with a vector instead of a list.
>
>   std::vector<Point_3> vect;
>   std::sort(vect.begin(),vect.end());
>
> S.
Andreas makes me notice that you may be talking about the sort/unique
member functions of std::list. In that case you can directly use the
function sort() and unique() as operator< are defined for points.

  std::list<Point_3> lst;
  lst.sort();
  lst.unique();

S.