Accessing a member function from a vector of pointers? C++ -

so, lets have vector, vector<item*> vitem , item class member function item::setvalue();. lets populated vector using vitem.push_back(new item).

now, access member function, through pointer in vector, vitem[0]->setvalue("key");. valid? assumed was, when cout member variables using getvalue() function, nothing new returned, default values constructor.

any ideas? feel it's stupid mistake in logic, i'm not sure. appreciated.

edits:

setvalue code:

void item::setvalue(string svalue) {         m_svalue = svalue; } 

with private variable:

string m_svalue; 

getvalue code:

string item::getvalue() {     return m_svalue; } 

simple version of code:

void func2(vector<item*>& vitem) {     vitem.push_back(new item);     vitem[0]->setvalue("key"); }  int main(int argc, char * argv[]) {     vector<item*> vitem;     func2(vitem);     cout << vitem[0]->getvalue() << endl;      return 0; }     

i should note: compiles fine (g++ using c++0x standard) however, setter doesn't set.

your getvalue returns void , there's out-of-place semi-colon after getvalue() in implementation of method. change string item::getvalue(){return m_svalue;}