Use unique_copy to copy elements in an array to list with back_inserter : unique copy « STL Algorithms Modifying sequence operations « C++ Tutorial

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#include <iostream>
#include <list>
#include <algorithm>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

int main( ) {
   string arrStr[5] = {"A", "B", "A", "D", "E"};

   list<string> lstStrDest;
   unique_copy(&arrStr[0], &arrStr[5], back_inserter(lstStrDest));

   for (list<string>::iterator p = lstStrDest.begin( );
        p != lstStrDest.end( ); ++p) {
      cout << *p << endl;
   }
}

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B
A
D
E