Using std::vector as view on to raw memory

Question

I\'m using a external library which at some point gives me a raw pointer to an array of integers and a size.

Now I\'d like to use std::vector to access and

Answer 1

You could use a std::reference_wrapper available since C++11:

#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 

int main()
{
    int src_table[] = {5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0};

    std::vector< std::reference_wrapper< int > > dest_vector;

    std::copy(std::begin(src_table), std::end(src_table), std::back_inserter(dest_vector));
    // if you don't have the array defined just a pointer and size then:
    // std::copy(src_table_ptr, src_table_ptr + size, std::back_inserter(dest_vector));

    std::sort(std::begin(dest_vector), std::end(dest_vector));

    std::for_each(std::begin(src_table), std::end(src_table), [](int x) { std::cout << x << '\n'; });
    std::for_each(std::begin(dest_vector), std::end(dest_vector), [](int x) { std::cout << x << '\n'; });
}