Is there an equivalent to the range-based `enumerate` loop from python in modern C++?

Question

Is there an equivalent to the range-based enumerate loop from python in C++? I would imagine something like this.

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Answer 1

This question is tagged c++14, but I would like to post an answer for c++20 because there's a really beautiful solution that I posted here

Answer 2

I wrote something for this a while back.

Essentially, you need to wrap an iterator and give it pair semantics.

AFAIK, there's nothing like this built into the language. And I don't think boost has it either. You pretty much have to roll your own.

// Wraps a forward-iterator to produce {value, index} pairs, similar to
// python's enumerate()
template <typename Iterator>
struct EnumerateIterator {
private:
  Iterator current;
  Iterator last;
  size_t index;
  bool atEnd;

public:
  typedef decltype(*std::declval<Iterator>()) IteratorValue;
  typedef pair<IteratorValue const&, size_t> value_type;

  EnumerateIterator()
    : index(0), atEnd(true) {}

  EnumerateIterator(Iterator begin, Iterator end)
    : current(begin), last(end), index(0) {
    atEnd = current == last;
  }

  EnumerateIterator begin() const {
    return *this;
  }

  EnumerateIterator end() const {
    return EnumerateIterator();
  }

  EnumerateIterator operator++() {
    if (!atEnd) {
      ++current;
      ++index;

      atEnd = current == last;
    }

    return *this;
  }

  value_type operator*() const {
    return {*current, index};
  }

  bool operator==(EnumerateIterator const& rhs) const {
    return
      (atEnd && rhs.atEnd) ||
      (!atEnd && !rhs.atEnd && current == rhs.current && last == rhs.last);
  }

  bool operator!=(EnumerateIterator const& rhs) const {
    return !(*this == rhs);
  }

  explicit operator bool() const {
    return !atEnd;
  }
};

template<typename Iterable>
EnumerateIterator<decltype(std::declval<Iterable>().begin())> enumerateIterator(Iterable& list) {
  return EnumerateIterator<decltype(std::declval<Iterable>().begin())>(list.begin(), list.end());
}

template<typename ResultContainer, typename Iterable>
ResultContainer enumerateConstruct(Iterable&& list) {
  ResultContainer res;
  for (auto el : enumerateIterator(list))
    res.push_back(move(el));

  return res;
}

Answer 3

Boost::Range supports this as of 1.56.

#include <boost/range/adaptor/indexed.hpp>
#include <boost/assign.hpp>
#include <iterator>
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>


int main(int argc, const char* argv[])
{
    using namespace boost::assign;
    using namespace boost::adaptors;

    std::vector<int> input;
    input += 10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80,90;

//  for (const auto& element : index(input, 0)) // function version
    for (const auto& element : input | indexed(0))      
    {
        std::cout << "Element = " << element.value()
                  << " Index = " << element.index()
                  << std::endl;
    }

    return 0;
}