Binary search with returned index in STL?

Question

I need a binary search function.

I couldn\'t find any function in the standard library that will return the index of the found item, and if it wasn\'t found,

Answer 1

There is no simple STL method which returns index against a sorted vector as far as I know, however you can use sample function below:

/**
 * @param v - sorted vector instance
 * @param data - value to search
 * @return 0-based index if data found, -1 otherwise
*/
int binary_search_find_index(std::vector v, int data) {
    auto it = std::lower_bound(v.begin(), v.end(), data);
    if (it == v.end() || *it != data) {
        return -1;
    } else {
        std::size_t index = std::distance(v.begin(), it);
        return index;
    }   
}