iterator erase( iterator pos );
(until C++11)iterator erase( const_iterator pos );
(since C++11)iterator erase( iterator first, iterator last );
(until C++11)iterator erase( const_iterator first, const_iterator last );
(since C++11)Erases the specified elements from the container.
1) Removes the element at pos.
2) Removes the elements in the range [
first,
last)
.
Iterators (including the end()
iterator) and references to the elements at or after the point of the erase are invalidated.
The iterator pos must be valid and dereferenceable. Thus the end() iterator (which is valid, but is not dereferenceable) cannot be used as a value for pos.
The iterator first does not need to be dereferenceable if first == last: erasing an empty range is a no-op.
[edit] Parameters pos - iterator to the element to remove first, last - the pair of iterators defining the range of elements to remove Type requirements -IfT
is not MoveAssignable, the behavior is undefined. [edit] Return value
Iterator following the last removed element.
1)If
posrefers to the last element, then the
end()iterator is returned.
2)If
last == end()prior to removal, then the updated
end()iterator is returned.
If [
first,
last)
is an empty range, then last is returned.
Does not throw unless an exception is thrown by the assignment operator of T
.
Linear: the number of calls to the destructor of T
is the same as the number of elements erased, the assignment operator of T
is called the number of times equal to the number of elements in the vector after the erased elements.
When container elements need to be erased based on a predicate, rather than iterating the container and calling unary erase
, the iterator range overload is generally used with std::remove()/std::remove_if() to minimise the number of moves of the remaining (non-removed) elements, — this is the erase-remove idiom. std::erase_if()
replaces the erase-remove idiom.(since C++20)
#include <vector> #include <iostream> void print_container(const std::vector<int>& c) { for (int i : c) std::cout << i << ' '; std::cout << '\n'; } int main() { std::vector<int> c{0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9}; print_container(c); c.erase(c.begin()); print_container(c); c.erase(c.begin() + 2, c.begin() + 5); print_container(c); // Erase all even numbers for (std::vector<int>::iterator it = c.begin(); it != c.end();) { if (*it % 2 == 0) it = c.erase(it); else ++it; } print_container(c); }
Output:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 2 6 7 8 9 1 7 9Defect reports
The following behavior-changing defect reports were applied retroactively to previously published C++ standards.
DR Applied to Behavior as published Correct behavior LWG 151 C++98 first was required to be dereferenceable, whichvector
undefined not required if
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