Problem 2991. Finding an element in a vector

Created by Yaz Majeed

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Guillaume on 10 Feb 2015

From a usability point of view, returning a string to indicate nothing found is probably the worst. an empty value or 0 would be much better.

David Verrelli on 22 Nov 2017

Guillaume, I would say that that depends upon the intended 'audience' for the output.

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