std::swap_ranges

 

C++

Language

Standard library headers

Concepts

Utilities library

Strings library

Containers library

Algorithms library

Iterators library

Numerics library

Input/output library

Localizations library

Regular expressions library (C++11)

Atomic operations library (C++11)

Thread support library (C++11)

Technical Specifications

 

Algorithm library

Functions
Non-modifying sequence operations
all_ofany_ofnone_of (C++11)(C++11)(C++11) for_each countcount_if mismatch equal	findfind_iffind_if_not (C++11) find_end find_first_of adjacent_find search search_n
Modifying sequence operations
copycopy_if (C++11) copy_n (C++11) copy_backward move (C++11) move_backward (C++11) fill fill_n transform generate generate_n removeremove_if remove_copyremove_copy_if	replacereplace_if replace_copyreplace_copy_if swap swap_ranges iter_swap reverse reverse_copy rotate rotate_copy random_shuffleshuffle (until C++17)(C++11) unique unique_copy
Partitioning operations
is_partitioned (C++11) partition partition_copy (C++11)	stable_partition partition_point (C++11)
Sorting operations (on sorted ranges)
is_sorted (C++11) is_sorted_until (C++11) sort	partial_sort partial_sort_copy stable_sort nth_element
Binary search operations (on sorted ranges)
lower_bound upper_bound	binary_search equal_range
Set operations (on sorted ranges)
merge inplace_merge includes	set_difference set_intersection set_symmetric_difference set_union
Heap operations
is_heap (C++11) is_heap_until (C++11) make_heap	push_heap pop_heap sort_heap
Minimum/maximum operations
max max_element min min_element minmax (C++11) minmax_element (C++11)	lexicographical_compare is_permutation (C++11) next_permutation prev_permutation
Numeric operations
iota (C++11) accumulate inner_product	adjacent_difference partial_sum
C library
qsort	bsearch

 

Defined in header <algorithm>
template< class ForwardIt1, class ForwardIt2 > ForwardIt2 swap_ranges( ForwardIt1 first1, ForwardIt1 last1, ForwardIt2 first2 );

Exchanges elements between range [first1, last1) and another range starting at first2.

Parameters

first1, last1	-	the first range of elements to swap
first2	-	beginning of the second range of elements to swap
Type requirements
- ForwardIt1, ForwardIt2 must meet the requirements of ForwardIterator.
- The types of dereferenced ForwardIt1 and ForwardIt2 must meet the requirements of Swappable

Return value

Iterator to the element past the last element exchanged in the range beginning with first2.

Possible implementation

template<class ForwardIt1, class ForwardIt2> ForwardIt2 swap_ranges(ForwardIt1 first1, ForwardIt1 last1, ForwardIt2 first2) { while (first1 != last1) { std::iter_swap(first1++, first2++); } return first2; }

Example

Demonstrates swapping of subranges from different containers

Run this code

#include <algorithm>
#include <list>
#include <vector>
#include <iostream>
int main()
{
    std::vector<int> v = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5};
    std::list<int> l = {-1, -2, -3, -4, -5};
 
    std::swap_ranges(v.begin(), v.begin()+3, l.begin());
 
    for(int n : v)
       std::cout << n << ' ';
    std::cout << '\n';
    for(int n : l)
       std::cout << n << ' ';
    std::cout << '\n';
}

Output:

-1 -2 -3 4 5
1 2 3 -4 -5

Complexity

linear in the distance between first and last

See also

iter_swap	swaps the elements pointed to by two iterators (function template)
swap	swaps the values of two objects (function template)
std::experimental::parallel::swap_ranges (parallelism TS)	parallelized version of std::swap_ranges (function template)