James Hughes writes:

[snip]

Now that looks fine to me, but the line where I declare the iterator fails with a

error: Expect ';' before 'pos'

and I don't know why - it seems fine to me.

The line MyPtrList::iterator pos; it's not legal. You have to tell the compiler that MyPtrList::iterator it's a type. Try this: typename MyPtrList::iterator pos; Best regards, Raúl