Vectors?

[danielmccarthy]

Hi,
I am trying to pop the element on a vector off and return its value at the same time

vector.push_back();

Unfortunatly that code only removes that element from the vector it does not return it

Is the only way to get the element and destory it is to do this?

vector.back();
vector.pop_back();

Thanks

[Peter87]

Yeah you will have to copy (or move) the last element in the vector before you call pop_back(). The reason it doesn't return the removed element is because it would have to create a copy and that would be wasteful if you don't need the copy.