Template Functions

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Andy

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Location: New Zealand

Occupation: Student

Sunday, September 19th 2004, 10:43am

Template Functions

I am having trouble using a template function for shuffling an array.
I have an array of nodes that I have to shuffle and am putting them into this function:

Source code

template <class T> void shuffle( T *arr, int len){
  int pos;
  T temp;
  srand(time(NULL)+clock_t());
  for(int i = len-1; i > 0; i--){
    temp = arr[i];
    pos = rand()%i;
    arr[i] = arr[pos];
    arr[pos] = temp;
  }
}

The function is called like this;

	Source code
1	<Node>shuffle(nodes[1], 29);

So that it shuffles postion 1 to 29. However, the compiler gives me this error:
In function `int main(int, char**)':
error: syntax error before `<' token

There is no error before the '<' token, and when I compile without trying to call the function, it works fine, but when I try to use the function, it cannot compile.

Does anybody know why?

Thanks,
Andy.