Remove elements from range and copy removed elements to new range - c++

I need a method to remove all elements fulfilling a certain criteria from a range (an std::vector in this particular case) and copy those removed elements to a new range (so something like std::remove_if with an output parameter.) Neither the order of the input range nor the order of the output range after this operation is relevant.
One naive approach would be using std::partition to find all "evil" elements, then copy those and last remove them, but this would touch all the "evil" elements twice without need.
Alternatively I could write the desired remove_if variant myself, but why reinvent the wheel (plus I do not know if I can match the efficiency of a high quality library implementation).
So the question is:
Does a such a function already exist?
Boost is allowed, but standard C++ is preferred (the project does not depend on boost yet).
If not, is there a smart algorithm that is faster than a naive handcrafted remove_if variant would be?

No it doesn't. There's functions that do one (remove elements which match a predicate) or the other (copy elements which match a predicate) but not both. But it's easy enough to write our own in two steps:
template <typename InputIter, typename OutputIter, typename UnaryPredicate>
InputIter remove_and_copy(InputIter first, InputIter last,
OutputIter d_first, UnaryPredicate pred)
{
std::copy_if(first, last, d_first, pred);
return std::remove_if(first, last, pred);
}
To be used like:
std::vector<int> v = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7};
std::vector<int> u;
v.erase(
remove_and_copy(v.begin(), v.end(), std::back_inserter(u),
[](int i) { return i%2 == 0; }),
v.end()
);
// now v is {1, 3, 5, 7} and u is {2, 4, 6}
If you only need vector you can write it a bit differently, but still just 2 lines:
template <typename T, typename UnaryPredicate>
void remove_and_copy(std::vector<T>& from, std::vector<T>& to, UnaryPredicate pred)
{
std::copy_if(from.begin(), from.end(), std::back_inserter(to), pred);
from.erase(std::remove_if(from.begin(), from.end(), pred), from.end());
}
Or write your own loop:
template <typename T, typename UnaryPredicate>
void remove_and_copy(std::vector<T>& from, std::vector<T>& to, UnaryPredicate pred)
{
for (auto it = from.begin(); it != from.end(); ) {
if (pred(*it)) {
to.push_back(*it);
it = from.erase(it);
}
else {
++it;
}
}
}
Usage of either:
remove_and_copy(v, u, [](int i) { return i%2 == 0; });

The problem with removing while using iterators is that you don't have access to the actual container, so you can't actually get rid of the elements. Rather, for instance, what std::remove() does is move the target range to the end of the range, which the container will later use to actually remove the elements.
Instead, you can have your function take the stream as a parameter so you can call its removal method once the target value is found:
#include <algorithm>
#include <iterator>
#include <string>
#include <iostream>
template <typename Container, typename OutputIt, typename UnaryPredicate>
auto remove_and_copy_if(Container& c, OutputIt d_first, UnaryPredicate pred)
-> decltype(c.begin())
{
auto it = std::begin(c);
for (; it != std::end(c); )
{
while (it != std::end(c) && pred(*it))
{
d_first++ = *it;
it = c.erase(it);
}
if (it != std::end(c)) ++it;
}
return it;
}
template <typename Container, typename OutputIt, typename T>
auto remove_and_copy(Container& c, OutputIt d_first, T const& value)
-> decltype(c.begin())
{
return remove_and_copy_if(c, d_first,
[&] (T const& t) { return t == value; });
}
int main()
{
std::string str = "Text with some spaces ";
std::string output;
std::cout << "Before: " << str << '\n';
remove_and_copy(str, std::back_inserter(output), ' ');
std::cout << "After: " << str << '\n';
std::cout << "Characters removed: " << output << '\n';
}
Demo

Related

What STL algorithm can determine if exactly one item in a container satisfies a predicate?

I need an STL algorithm that takes a predicate and a collection and returns true if one and only one member of the collection satisfies the predicate, otherwise returns false.
How would I do this using STL algorithms?
E.g., to replace the following with STL algorithm code to express the same return value.
int count = 0;
for( auto itr = c.begin(); itr != c.end(); ++itr ) {
if ( predicate( *itr ) ) {
if ( ++count > 1 ) {
break;
}
}
}
return 1 == count;
Two things come to my mind:
std::count_if and then compare the result to 1.
To avoid traversing the whole container in case eg the first two elements already match the predicate I would use two calls looking for matching elements. Something along the line of
auto it = std::find_if(begin,end,predicate);
if (it == end) return false;
++it;
return std::none_of(it,end,predicate);
Or if you prefer it more compact:
auto it = std::find_if(begin,end,predicate);
return (it != end) && std::none_of(std::next(it),end,predicate);
Credits goes to Remy Lebeau for compacting, Deduplicator for debracketing and Blastfurnance for realizing that we can also use none_of the std algorithms.
You can use std::count_if† to count and return if it is one.
For example:
#include <iostream>
#include <algorithm> // std::count_if
#include <vector> // std::vector
#include <ios> // std::boolalpha
template<class Iterator, class UnaryPredicate>
constexpr bool is_count_one(Iterator begin, const Iterator end, UnaryPredicate pred)
{
return std::count_if(begin, end, pred) == 1;
}
int main()
{
std::vector<int> vec{ 2, 4, 3 };
// true: if only one Odd element present in the container
std::cout << std::boolalpha
<< is_count_one(vec.cbegin(), vec.cend(),
[](const int ele) constexpr noexcept -> bool { return ele & 1; });
return 0;
}
†Update: However, std::count_if counts entire element in the container, which is not good as the algorithm given in the question. The best approach using the standard algorithm collections has been mentioned in #formerlyknownas_463035818 's answer.
That being said, OP's approach is also good as the above mentioned best standard approach, where a short-circuiting happens when count reaches 2. If someone is interested in a non-standard algorithm template function for OP's approach, here is it.
#include <iostream>
#include <vector> // std::vector
#include <ios> // std::boolalpha
#include <iterator> // std::iterator_traits
template<class Iterator, class UnaryPredicate>
bool is_count_one(Iterator begin, const Iterator end, UnaryPredicate pred)
{
typename std::iterator_traits<Iterator>::difference_type count{ 0 };
for (; begin != end; ++begin) {
if (pred(*begin) && ++count > 1) return false;
}
return count == 1;
}
int main()
{
std::vector<int> vec{ 2, 3, 4, 2 };
// true: if only one Odd element present in the container
std::cout << std::boolalpha
<< is_count_one(vec.cbegin(), vec.cend(),
[](const int ele) constexpr noexcept -> bool { return ele & 1; });
return 0;
}
Now that can be generalized, by providing one more parameter, the number of N element(s) has/ have to be found in the container.
template<typename Iterator>
using diff_type = typename std::iterator_traits<Iterator>::difference_type;
template<class Iterator, class UnaryPredicate>
bool has_exactly_n(Iterator begin, const Iterator end, UnaryPredicate pred, diff_type<Iterator> N = 1)
{
diff_type<Iterator> count{ 0 };
for (; begin != end; ++begin) {
if (pred(*begin) && ++count > N) return false;
}
return count == N;
}
Starting from formerlyknownas_463035818's answer, this can be generalized to seeing if a container has exactly n items that satisfy a predicate. Why? Because this is C++ and we're not satisfied until we can read email at compile time.
template<typename Iterator, typename Predicate>
bool has_exactly_n(Iterator begin, Iterator end, size_t count, Predicate predicate)
{
if(count == 0)
{
return std::none_of(begin, end, predicate);
}
else
{
auto iter = std::find_if(begin, end, predicate);
return (iter != end) && has_exactly_n(std::next(iter), end, count - 1, predicate);
}
}
Using std::not_fn to negate a predicate
As the core of the algorithm of this question (as has been elegantly covered by combining std::find_if and std::none_of in the accepted answer), with short-circuiting upon failure, is to scan a container for a unary predicate and, when met, continue scanning the rest of the container for the negation of the predicate, I will mention also the negator std::not_fn introduced in C++17, replacing the less useful std::not1 and std::not2 constructs.
We may use std::not_fn to implement the same predicate logic as the accepted answer (std::find_if conditionally followed by std::none_of), but with somewhat different semantics, replacing the latter step (std::none_of) with std::all_of over the negation of the unary predicate used in the first step (std::find_if). E.g.:
// C++17
#include <algorithm> // std::find_if
#include <functional> // std::not_fn
#include <ios> // std::boolalpha
#include <iostream>
#include <iterator> // std::next
#include <vector>
template <class InputIt, class UnaryPredicate>
constexpr bool one_of(InputIt first, InputIt last, UnaryPredicate p) {
auto it = std::find_if(first, last, p);
return (it != last) && std::all_of(std::next(it), last, std::not_fn(p));
}
int main() {
const std::vector<int> v{1, 3, 5, 6, 7};
std::cout << std::boolalpha << "Exactly one even number : "
<< one_of(v.begin(), v.end(), [](const int n) {
return n % 2 == 0;
}); // Exactly one even number : true
}
A parameter pack approach for static size containers
As I’ve already limited this answer to C++14 (and beyond), I’ll include an alternative approach for static size containers (here applied for std::array, specifically), making use of std::index_sequence combined with parameter pack expansion:
#include <array>
#include <ios> // std::boolalpha
#include <iostream>
#include <utility> // std::(make_)index_sequence
namespace detail {
template <typename Array, typename UnaryPredicate, std::size_t... I>
bool one_of_impl(const Array& arr, const UnaryPredicate& p,
std::index_sequence<I...>) {
bool found = false;
auto keep_searching = [&](const int n){
const bool p_res = found != p(n);
found = found || p_res;
return !found || p_res;
};
return (keep_searching(arr[I]) && ...) && found;
}
} // namespace detail
template <typename T, typename UnaryPredicate, std::size_t N,
typename Indices = std::make_index_sequence<N>>
auto one_of(const std::array<T, N>& arr,
const UnaryPredicate& p) {
return detail::one_of_impl(arr, p, Indices{});
}
int main() {
const std::array<int, 5> a{1, 3, 5, 6, 7};
std::cout << std::boolalpha << "Exactly one even number : "
<< one_of(a, [](const int n) {
return n % 2 == 0;
}); // Exactly one even number : true
}
This will also short-circuit upon early failure (“found more than one”), but will contain a few more simple boolean comparisons than in the approach above.
However, note that this approach could have its draw-backs, particularly for optimized code for container inputs with many elements, as is pointed out by #PeterCordes in a comment below. Citing the comment (as comments are not guaranteed to persist over time):
Just because the size is static doesn't mean that fully unrolling the loop with templates is a good idea. In the resulting asm, this needs a branch every iteration anyway to stop on found, so that might as well be a loop-branch. CPUs are good at running loops (code caches, loopback buffers). Compilers will fully unroll static-sized loops based on heuristics, but probably won't roll this back up if a is huge. So your first one_of implementation has the best of both worlds already, assuming a normal modern compiler like gcc or clang, or maybe MSVC

How to implement end sentinel for back_insert_iterator?

I want to fill a container by consequtive values of iterators to elements of another container (often occured real life problem), say:
std::container1< T > c1{/* initialized */};
assert(!c1.empty());
std::continer2< typename std::container1< T >::iterator > c2;
auto it = std::begin(c1), const end = std::end(c1);
do { c2.push_back(it); } while (++it != end);
There is attractive std::iota algorithm in STL, but it is range-based and for std::back_inserter(c2) there is no way to achieve desired currently. However in the next versions of STL I can expect the iota algorithm of the form:
template< typename ForwardIterator, typename EndSentinel, typename T >
void
iota(ForwardIterator first, EndSentinel last, T value)
{
for (; first != last; ++first) {
*first = value;
++value;
}
}
How to implement EndSentinel and operator != (ForwardIterator, EndSentinel) to make above iota stop after exactly c1.size() step of the for loop in iota(std::back_inserter(c1), something(c1, c1.size()), std::begin(c1))?
There is no sentinel for std::back_insert_iterator (or any OutputIterator) and also no equality operator, because an output iterator is an "unlimited sequence": You can append elements to the end of a container or write to a file until you run out of memory or disk space.
However, it makes sense to have an output iterator with a sentinel if you need to call an algorithm which expects an "output sentinel" (because not expecting one may be unsafe if the output is a "limited sequence", such as a pre-allocated std::vector). Such an algorithm could look like:
template<typename InIter, typename InSentinel, typename OutIter, typename OutSentinel>
OutIter modernAlgorithm(InIter first, InSentinel last, OutIter outFirst, OutSentinel outLast);
In this case, all you need is a trivial sentinel, which compares unequal to everything. See also this answer.
template<typename T>
struct TrivialSentinel
{
bool operator==(const T&) { return false; }
bool operator!=(const T&) { return true; }
friend bool operator==(const T&, TrivialSentinel&) { return false; }
friend bool operator!=(const T&, TrivialSentinel&) { return true; }
};
modernAlgorithm(v.begin(), v.end(), std::back_inserter(r), TrivialSentinel<decltype(std::back_inserter(r))>());
(This may seem odd, but it does make sense if you consider that even if you repeat the same operation *out = expr on the same value of out, the output will be in a different state each time, so in a certain sense, no two output iterators are ever necessarily equivalent...)
However, older algorithms often don't allow the iterator and sentinel to have different types:
template<typename InIter, typename OutIter>
OutIter olderAlgorithm(InIter first, InIter last, OutIter outFirst, OutIter outLast);
In this case, you can write a sub class or wrapper of std::back_insert_iterator, which has a default constructor and always compares unequal to itself.
This is easy in C++20, where std::back_insert_iterator has a default constructor:
// C++20
template<typename C>
struct BackInsertIteratorWithSentinel : public std::back_insert_iterator<C>
{
BackInsertIteratorWithSentinel() {} // C++20 only
BackInsertIteratorWithSentinel(C& c) : std::back_insert_iterator<C>(c) {}
bool operator==(const BackInsertIteratorWithSentinel&) { return false; }
bool operator!=(const BackInsertIteratorWithSentinel&) { return true; }
};
template<typename C>
BackInsertIteratorWithSentinel<C> BackInserterWithSentinel(C& c)
{
return BackInsertIteratorWithSentinel<C>(c);
}
template<typename C>
BackInsertIteratorWithSentinel<C> BackInserterWithSentinel()
{
return BackInsertIteratorWithSentinel<C>();
}
olderAlgorithm(v.begin(), v.end(), BackInserterWithSentinel(r), BackInserterWithSentinel<std::vector<int> >());
Note that even in C++20, std::back_insert_iterator does not have an equality operator.
If you have to support older versions of C++, then you may have to implement your own std::back_insert_iterator from scratch, or use boost::optional or in-place construction to work around the lack of a default constructor.
Full test program for C++20
I dont think you can do it - or maybe I dont understand your question, but..
according to http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/algorithm/iota, this algorithm works on existing range of elements - so it does not make sense to use it with: std::back_inserter as first iterator which basicly is used to insert elements.
I want to fill a container by consequtive values of iterators to elements of another container
a different solution which uses generate_n:
live
std::vector<int> src = {0,1,2,3};
std::vector<std::vector<int>::iterator> dst;
std::generate_n(std::back_inserter(dst), src.size(), [it=src.begin()]() mutable {return it++;});
Your question includes an iota implementation which is different than the one in the standard I believe. Here is the standard version I know http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/algorithm/iota.
Your iota (which I will rename it as miota in my code) allows different type of iterators for begin and end.
What you want in the algorithm is; end sentinel needs to be different from begin (the inserter) until all values are processed. For processing values you only take one object and you use increment and copy-construction on that object.
Therefore, your end sentinel should know about the value processing and when finished the end sentinel should become equal to the inserter somehow.
I did it via holding begin/end iterators of the original container in a class called IotaHelper. This uses shared_ptr for sharing state with the sentinel class which is called IotaEndSentinel.
When you increment the value inside miota, it actually increments the begin iterator of the IotaHelper. When you check equality with the inserter and the sentinel it actually checks the iterator equality inside the IotaHelper.
All code with a basic example is here:
#include <iterator>
#include <numeric>
#include <vector>
#include <iostream>
#include <utility>
#include <memory>
template< typename ForwardIterator, typename EndSentinel, typename T >
void miota(ForwardIterator first, EndSentinel last, T value)
{
for (; first != last; ++first) {
*first = value;
++value;
}
}
template<typename Container>
struct IotaHelper
{
using Iterator = typename Container::iterator;
using IteratorPair = std::pair<Iterator, Iterator>;
IotaHelper(Iterator begin, Iterator end)
:
pair(std::make_shared<IteratorPair>(begin, end))
{ }
operator Iterator()
{
return pair->first;
}
IotaHelper& operator++()
{
++pair->first;
return *this;
}
std::shared_ptr<IteratorPair> pair;
};
template<typename Container>
struct IotaEndSentinel
{
using Helper = IotaHelper<Container>;
using Iterator = typename Helper::Iterator;
IotaEndSentinel(const Helper& helper)
:
helper(helper)
{}
template<typename C>
friend bool operator!=(const std::back_insert_iterator<C>& bii,
const IotaEndSentinel& sentinel)
{
return sentinel.helper.pair->first != sentinel.helper.pair->second;
}
Helper helper;
};
int main()
{
using Container0 = std::vector<int>;
using Container1 = std::vector<Container0::iterator>;
Container0 c0 = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5};
Container1 c1;
IotaHelper<Container0> iotaHelper(c0.begin(), c0.end());
miota(std::back_inserter(c1),
IotaEndSentinel<Container0>(iotaHelper),
iotaHelper);
std::cout << "Result: ";
for (auto iter : c1)
{
std::cout << *iter << ", ";
}
std::cout << std::endl;
}
I have tried to do this because it was fun. But please don't use this method for hacking output iterators like back_insert_iterator and make a generic method for yourself for different containers.
template<typename SourceContainer, typename IteratorContainer>
void FillIterators(SourceContainer& sc, IteratorContainer& ic)
{
for (auto iter = sc.begin(); iter != sc.end(); ++iter)
{
ic.insert(ic.end(), iter);
}
}
EDIT:
After using heap-allocation that code was smelling to me. Instead of trying to reason about the "value and the process" we can reason about the "iterators and the process".
We can build an iterator-wrapper which contains the process iterator and the insert iterator together.
When the algorithm needs to dereference the wrapper, it will return the insert iterator.
When the algorithm needs to compare to other "wrapper or sentinel", wrapper will compare the process iterator.
In the end we can use such iterator for both std::iota and your miota.
Complete example is here:
#include <iterator>
#include <numeric>
#include <vector>
#include <iostream>
#include <utility>
#include <memory>
template< typename ForwardIterator, typename EndSentinel, typename T >
void miota(ForwardIterator first, EndSentinel last, T value)
{
for (; first != last; ++first) {
*first = value;
++value;
}
}
template<typename InsertIterator, typename Iterator>
struct InsertWrapper
{
InsertWrapper(const InsertIterator& inserter, const Iterator& iter)
:
inserter(inserter),
iter(iter)
{ }
bool operator!=(const InsertWrapper& other) const
{
//only compare process iterators
return iter != other.iter;
}
bool operator!=(const Iterator& sentinel) const
{
//compare process iterator against the sentinel
return iter != sentinel;
}
InsertIterator& operator*()
{
//return inserter for dereference
return inserter;
}
InsertWrapper& operator++()
{
//iterate inserter as the process progresses
++inserter;
++iter;
return *this;
}
InsertIterator inserter;
Iterator iter;
};
template<typename InsertIterator, typename Iterator>
InsertWrapper<InsertIterator, Iterator> WrapInserter(const InsertIterator& inserter,
const Iterator& iter)
{
return InsertWrapper<InsertIterator, Iterator>(inserter, iter);
}
int main()
{
using Container0 = std::vector<int>;
using Container1 = std::vector<Container0::iterator>;
Container0 c0 = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5};
Container1 c1;
//use wrapper as usual iterator begin/end
std::iota(WrapInserter(std::back_inserter(c1), c0.begin()),
WrapInserter(std::back_inserter(c1), c0.end()),
c0.begin());
std::cout << "std::iota result: ";
for (auto iter : c1)
{
std::cout << *iter << ", ";
}
std::cout << std::endl;
c1.clear();
miota(WrapInserter(std::back_inserter(c1), c0.begin()),
c0.end(), //end iterator as sentinel
c0.begin());
std::cout << "miota result: ";
for (auto iter : c1)
{
std::cout << *iter << ", ";
}
std::cout << std::endl;
}

Modifying sequence operations with external condition

Often I find myself working with some STL container and wishing to modify it based on some external condition. By external, I mean something that cannot be derived from the object in the container alone.
For example, let's say I have worked out which elements of the container I want to keep based on some elaborate criterion involving not only the elements themselves. The keep flags are stored in a container of the same size as the original container. Now I want to use std::remove_if to remove those for which the flag is zero. How can I do that?
std::vector<Foo> container_of_foos;
std::vector<int> to_keep(container_of_foos.size(), 0);
// ... code calculates which foos to keep and stores a flag for each one
// NOTE: the condition relies information external to the Foo class (could be relation to other Foo instances)
auto i_new_end = std::remove_if(begin(container_of_foos), end(container_of_foos), [&to_keep](const Foo& foo) {
// can't tell whether to keep, because I don't know which object is iterated now
});
Using boost::zip_iterator
boost::zip_iterator over a set of tuple iterators really simplifies the removal.
std::vector<int> numbers = {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9};
std::vector<bool> selectors = {0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1};
auto zip_first = boost::make_zip_iterator(
boost::make_tuple(selectors.begin(), numbers.begin()));
auto zip_last = zip_first + std::min(selectors.size(), numbers.size());
auto removed_first = std::remove_if(zip_first, zip_last, [](const auto& tup) {
return boost::get<0>(tup) == 0;
});
Live example on Wandbox.
Using algorithms (non-boost)
Write your own remove/remove_if that takes two ranges (values and selectors) and a value/predicate. You'll have to decide on how you want to handle mismatched range distances. Once you have two ranges in your expected state, you can run compress both by erasing. Below is an example of compressing a range that is filtered using another range, terminating on the shortest sequence.
Remove by value and predicate
template <typename FwdIt1, typename FwdIt2, typename ValueType>
auto remove(FwdIt1 first1, FwdIt1 last1, FwdIt2 first2, FwdIt2 last2,
const ValueType value) {
FwdIt1 curr1 = first1;
FwdIt2 curr2 = first2;
for (; curr1 != last1 && curr2 != last2; ++curr1, ++curr2) {
if (value != *curr2) {
*first1++ = std::move(*curr1);
*first2++ = std::move(*curr2);
}
}
return std::make_pair(first1, first2);
}
template <typename FwdIt1, typename FwdIt2, typename Predicate>
auto remove_if(FwdIt1 first1, FwdIt1 last1, FwdIt2 first2, FwdIt2 last2,
Predicate pred) {
FwdIt1 curr1 = first1;
FwdIt2 curr2 = first2;
for (; curr1 != last1 && curr2 != last2; ++curr1, ++curr2) {
if (!pred(*curr2)) {
*first1++ = std::move(*curr1);
*first2++ = std::move(*curr2);
}
}
return std::make_pair(first1, first2);
}
Container-based Compression (remove & erase) helpers
template <typename Container, typename Selector, typename ValueType>
auto compress(Container& values, Selector& selectors, const ValueType& value) {
const auto remove_iters =
remove(std::begin(values), std::end(values), std::begin(selectors),
std::end(selectors), value);
return std::make_pair(
values.erase(remove_iters.first, std::end(values)),
selectors.erase(remove_iters.second, std::end(selectors)));
}
template <typename Container, typename Selector, typename Predicate>
auto compress_if(Container& values, Selector& selectors, Predicate pred) {
const auto remove_iters =
remove_if(std::begin(values), std::end(values), std::begin(selectors),
std::end(selectors), pred);
return std::make_pair(
values.erase(remove_iters.first, std::end(values)),
selectors.erase(remove_iters.second, std::end(selectors)));
}
Live Example on Wandbox.
In C++11, use a lambda as the predicate. For example;
void func()
{
std::vector<int> container;
// populate container
int flag = 42;
// modify flag as needed
auto lambda = [flag](int element) {return element < flag;} // whatever
std::remove_if(container.begin(), container.end(), lambda);
}
Before C++11, use a functor.
struct remover
{
int flag;
remover(int flag_value) : flag(flag_value) {};
bool operator()(int element) {return element < flag;};
};
void func()
{
std::vector<int> container;
// populate container
int flag = 42;
// modify flag as needed
remover functor(flag);
std::remove_if(container.begin(), container.end(), functor);
}
These two samples are essentially equivalent.
In C++11, look up lambda capture specifications to work out how to pass other variables to the lambda. Before that, change the functor so it is constructed using whatever variables are needed.
&x-vec.data() is the index of x in vec.
Assuming, of course, that x is in vec: otherwise, is UB.

Move all elements which satisfy some condition from one container to another, i.e. I'm looking for some kind of "move_if"

Given
std::vector<T> first = /* some given data */, second;
I want to move all elements e which satisfy some condition cond(e) from first to second, i.e. something like
move_if(std::make_move_iterator(first.begin()),
std::make_move_iterator(first.end()),
std::back_inserter(second), [&](T const& e)
{
return cond(e);
});
I wasn't able to establish this with the algorithms library. So, how can I do that?
If the moved-from elements can stay where they are in first, then just use copy_if with move_iterator.
std::copy_if(std::make_move_iterator(first.begin()),
std::make_move_iterator(first.end()),
std::back_inserter(second), cond);
If the moved-from elements should be erased from first, I'd do
// partition: all elements that should not be moved come before
// (note that the lambda negates cond) all elements that should be moved.
// stable_partition maintains relative order in each group
auto p = std::stable_partition(first.begin(), first.end(),
[&](const auto& x) { return !cond(x); });
// range insert with move
second.insert(second.end(), std::make_move_iterator(p),
std::make_move_iterator(first.end()));
// erase the moved-from elements.
first.erase(p, first.end());
Or partition_copy with a move_iterator, followed by assignment:
std::vector<T> new_first;
std::partition_copy(std::make_move_iterator(first.begin()),
std::make_move_iterator(first.end()),
std::back_inserter(second), std::back_inserter(new_first), cond);
first = std::move(new_first);
The reason why move_if doesn't exist is because it would bloat the library. Either use copy_if with move iterator or write it yourself.
copy_if(move_iterator<I>(f), move_iterator<I>(l), out);
Here is an implementation by Jonas_No found at channel9.
template <typename FwdIt, typename Container, typename Predicate>
inline FwdIt move_if(FwdIt first, FwdIt last, Container &cont, Predicate pred)
{
if (first == last)
return last; // Empty so nothing to move
const size_t size = count_if(first, last, pred);
if (size == 0)
return last; // Nothing to move
cont.resize(size);
FwdIt new_end = first;
auto c = cont.begin();
for (auto i = first; i != last; ++i)
{
if (pred(*i)) // Should it move it ?
*c++ = move(*i);
else
*new_end++ = move(*i);
}
return new_end;
}
#T.C. has provided a perfectly working solution. However, at a first glance, one may not understand what the intend of that code is. So, it might be not perfect, but I tend to prefer something like this:
template<class InputIt, class OutputIt, class InputContainer, class UnaryPredicate>
OutputIt move_and_erase_if(InputIt first, InputIt last, InputContainer& c, OutputIt d_first, UnaryPredicate pred)
{
auto dist = std::distance(first, last);
while (first != last)
{
if (pred(*first))
{
*d_first++ = std::move(*first);
first = c.erase(first);
last = std::next(first, --dist);
}
else
{
++first;
--dist;
}
}
return d_first;
}

Find the nth element satisfying a condition?

Is there a couple of std::algorithm/lambda function to access the nth element satisfying a given condition. Because std::find_if will access the first one, so is there an equivalend to find the nth one ?
You need to create a stateful predicate that will count the number of instances and then complete when the expected count is reached. Now the problem is that there are no guarantees as of how many times the predicate will be copied during the evaluation of the algorithm, so you need to maintain that state outside of the predicate itself, which makes it a bit ugly, but you can do:
iterator which;
{ // block to limit the scope of the otherwise unneeded count variable
int count = 0;
which = std::find_if(c.begin(), c.end(), [&count](T const & x) {
return (condition(x) && ++count == 6)
});
};
If this comes up frequently, and you are not concerned about performance, you could write a predicate adapter that created a shared_ptr to the count internally and updated it. Multiple copies of the same adapter would share the same actual count object.
Another alternative would be to implement find_nth_if, which could be simpler.
#include <iterator>
#include <algorithm>
template<typename Iterator, typename Pred, typename Counter>
Iterator find_if_nth( Iterator first, Iterator last, Pred closure, Counter n ) {
typedef typename std::iterator_traits<Iterator>::reference Tref;
return std::find_if(first, last, [&](Tref x) {
return closure(x) && !(--n);
});
}
http://ideone.com/EZLLdL
An STL-like function template would be:
template<class InputIterator, class NthOccurence class UnaryPredicate>
InputIterator find_nth_if(InputIterator first, InputIterator last, NthOccurence Nth, UnaryPredicate pred)
{
if (Nth > 0)
while (first != last) {
if (pred(*first))
if (!--Nth)
return first;
++first;
}
return last;
}
And if you absolutely want to use the std::find_if, you could have something like:
template<class InputIterator, class NthOccurence class UnaryPredicate>
InputIterator find_nth_if(InputIterator first, InputIterator last, NthOccurence Nth, UnaryPredicate pred)
{
if (Nth > 0) {
do
first = std::find_if(first, last, pred);
while (!--Nth && ++first != last);
return first;
}
else
return last;
}
David's answer is fine as it is. Let me just point out that the predicate can be abstracted into the iterators by using the Boost.Iterator library, in particular the boost::filter_iterator adaptor, which has the advantage that it can be used for a lot more algorithms as well (counting e.g.):
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <algorithm>
#include <boost/iterator/filter_iterator.hpp>
template<class ForwardIt, class Predicate, class Size>
ForwardIt find_if_nth(ForwardIt first, ForwardIt last, Predicate pred, Size n)
{
auto vb = boost::make_filter_iterator(pred, first, last);
auto const ve = boost::make_filter_iterator(pred, last, last);
while (vb != ve && --n)
++vb;
return vb.base();
}
int main()
{
auto const v = std::vector<int>{ 0, 0, 3, 0, 2, 4, 5, 0, 7 };
auto const n = 2;
auto const pred = [](int i){ return i > 0; };
auto const nth_match = find_if_nth(v.begin(), v.end(), pred, n);
if (nth_match != v.end())
std::cout << *nth_match << '\n';
else
std::cout << "less than n elements in v matched predicate\n";
}
Live example. This will print 2 (the 2nd element > 0, counting starting at 1, so that find_if matches find_if_nth with n==1. If the predicate is changed to i > 10 or if the nth element is changed to n = 6, it will return the end iterator.