std::rotate_copy

Copies the left rotation of [first, last) to d_first.

If any of the following conditions is satisfied, the behavior is undefined:

• [first, middle) or [middle, last) is not a valid range.
• The source and destination ranges overlap.

[edit] Parameters

[edit] Return value

Output iterator to the element past the last element copied.

[edit] Complexity

Exactly std::distance(first, last) assignments.

[edit] Exceptions

The overload with a template parameter named ExecutionPolicy reports errors as follows:

• If execution of a function invoked as part of the algorithm throws an exception and ExecutionPolicy is one of the standard policies, std::terminate is called. For any other ExecutionPolicy, the behavior is implementation-defined.
• If the algorithm fails to allocate memory, std::bad_alloc is thrown.

[edit] Possible implementation

See also the implementations in libstdc++, libc++, and MSVC STL.

template<class ForwardIt, class OutputIt>
constexpr // since C++20
OutputIt rotate_copy(ForwardIt first, ForwardIt middle,
                     ForwardIt last, OutputIt d_first)
{
    d_first = std::copy(middle, last, d_first);
    return std::copy(first, middle, d_first);
}

[edit] Example

#include <algorithm>
#include <iostream>
#include <iterator>
#include <vector>
 
int main()
{
    std::vector<int> src{1, 2, 3, 4, 5};
    std::vector<int> dest(src.size());
    auto pivot = std::find(src.begin(), src.end(), 3);
 
    std::rotate_copy(src.begin(), pivot, src.end(), dest.begin());
    for (int i : dest)
        std::cout << i << ' ';
    std::cout << '\n';
 
    // copy the rotation result directly to the std::cout
    pivot = std::find(dest.begin(), dest.end(), 1);
    std::rotate_copy(dest.begin(), pivot, dest.end(),
                     std::ostream_iterator<int>(std::cout, " "));
    std::cout << '\n';
}

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[edit] See also