Accessing Map elements randomly

[Suresh369]

HI,
I have a need to randomly access a Map element.
For this I tried:

int entry ; //Randomly generated
map<int, int> blah;
map<int, int>::iterator blahI;

blahI = element + blah.begin();

But the compiler complains. I need to get an iterator to a particular element.
Thanks

[D_C]

Iterators should support relative addressing. Why don't you change your code to

data = *(entry+blah.begin());

and see if it likes it.