C++ sorting and keeping track of indexes

Question

Using C++, and hopefully the standard library, I want to sort a sequence of samples in ascending order, but I also want to remember the original indexes of the new samples.<

Answer 1

There are many ways. A rather simple solution is to use a 2D vector.

#include 
#include 
#include 
using namespace std;

int main() {
 vector> val_and_id;
 val_and_id.resize(5);
 for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
   val_and_id[i].resize(2); // one to store value, the other for index.
 }
 // Store value in dimension 1, and index in the other:
 // say values are 5,4,7,1,3.
 val_and_id[0][0] = 5.0;
 val_and_id[1][0] = 4.0;
 val_and_id[2][0] = 7.0;
 val_and_id[3][0] = 1.0;
 val_and_id[4][0] = 3.0;

 val_and_id[0][1] = 0.0;
 val_and_id[1][1] = 1.0;
 val_and_id[2][1] = 2.0;
 val_and_id[3][1] = 3.0;
 val_and_id[4][1] = 4.0;

 sort(val_and_id.begin(), val_and_id.end());
 // display them:
 cout << "Index \t" << "Value \n";
 for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
  cout << val_and_id[i][1] << "\t" << val_and_id[i][0] << "\n";
 }
 return 0;
}

Here is the output:

   Index   Value
   3       1
   4       3
   1       4
   0       5
   2       7