std::list::sort

1	`void` `sort();`

(1)

template< class Compare > 
void sort( Compare comp );

(2)

Sorts the elements in ascending order. The order of equal elements is preserved. The first version uses operator< to compare the elements, the second version uses the given comparison function comp.

Parameters

comp

comparison function object (i.e. an object that satisfies the requirements of Compare) which returns true if the first argument is less than (i.e. is ordered before) the second.

The signature of the comparison function should be equivalent to the following:

bool cmp(const Type1 &a, const Type2 &b);

The signature does not need to have const &, but the function object must not modify the objects passed to it.
The types Type1 and Type2 must be such that an object of type list<T,Allocator>::const_iterator can be dereferenced and then implicitly converted to both of them.

Return value

(none).

Notes

std::sort requires random access iterators and so cannot be used with list . This function also differs from std::sort in that it does not require the element type of the list to be swappable, preserves the values of all iterators, and performs a stable sort.

Example

#include <iostream>
#include <functional>
#include <list>
  
std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& ostr, const std::list<int>& list)
{
    for (auto &i : list) {
        ostr << " " << i;
    }
    return ostr;
}
  
int main()
{
    std::list<int> list = { 8,7,5,9,0,1,3,2,6,4 };
  
    std::cout << "before:     " << list << "\n";
    list.sort();
    std::cout << "ascending:  " << list << "\n";
    list.sort(std::greater<int>());
    std::cout << "descending: " << list << "\n";
}

Output:

before:      8 7 5 9 0 1 3 2 6 4
ascending:   0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
descending:  9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0

Complexity

N · log(N) comparisons, where N is the size of the container.

Links:

http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/list/sort

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2025-01-10 15:47:30

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