Re: [Boost-users] how to delete references to objects from a container...

 If I store the shared_ptr, I want to know how to delete this explicitly from the stl container.

According to my understanding shared_ptrs cannot be 'delete'd.  So, how to achieve this...?

You can delete shared_ptr from a container, just like you delete any element, using contaners member functions (like erase(), pop_front() etc). You cannot delete the *pointee* of the shared_ptr, because it might be shared. But if there's no other copy of the shared_ptr that you delete from your container, the pointee will be deleted as well.