i'm not sure if a pointer can do the job of an iterator, or otherwise, or they are different things?
admiri92
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Jump to PostPointers are iterators (random access iterators to be specific) and they are in fact commonly used as such. For example
std::vector<T>usesT*in most (possibly all) implementations (except in the case ofvector<bool>, which is a special case).On the other hand there are many iterators that aren't pointers. …
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Pointers are iterators (random access iterators to be specific) and they are in fact commonly used as such. For example std::vector<T> uses T* in most (possibly all) implementations (except in the case of vector<bool>, which is a special case).
On the other hand there are many iterators that aren't pointers. For example std::list<T>::iterator could not possibly be a pointer type.
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Iterators were designed based off of pointers, so a pointer is a form of iterator, but an iterator isn't necessarily a pointer.
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they are different things?
They are different things.
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