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The "ranges" member of a LaserScan message is represented by a std::vector<float> and can be used just like any other std::vector of floats.

It might help to have a look at the laser callbacks in slam_gmapping, AMCL and hector_mapping. For the latter, an example of accessing range data is the rosLaserScanToDataContainer function.

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