Defined in header <algorithm> | ||
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(1) | ||
template< class ForwardIt > ForwardIt min_element( ForwardIt first, ForwardIt last ); | (until C++17) | |
template< class ForwardIt > constexpr ForwardIt min_element( ForwardIt first, ForwardIt last ); | (since C++17) | |
(2) | ||
template< class ForwardIt, class Compare > ForwardIt min_element( ForwardIt first, ForwardIt last, Compare comp ); | (until C++17) | |
template< class ForwardIt, class Compare > constexpr ForwardIt min_element( ForwardIt first, ForwardIt last, Compare comp ); | (since C++17) |
Finds the smallest element in the range [first, last)
. The first version uses operator<
to compare the values, the second version uses the given comparison function comp
.
Parameters
first, last | - | forward iterators defining the range to examine |
cmp | - | comparison function object (i.e. an object that satisfies the requirements of Compare ) which returns true if a is less than b . The signature of the comparison function should be equivalent to the following:
The signature does not need to have |
Type requirements | ||
- ForwardIt must meet the requirements of ForwardIterator . |
Return value
Iterator to the smallest element in the range [first, last)
. If several elements in the range are equivalent to the smallest element, returns the iterator to the first such element. Returns last
if the range is empty.
Complexity
Exactly max(N-1,0) comparisons, where N = std::distance(first, last)
.
Possible implementation
First version |
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template<class ForwardIt> ForwardIt min_element(ForwardIt first, ForwardIt last) { if (first == last) return last; ForwardIt smallest = first; ++first; for (; first != last; ++first) { if (*first < *smallest) { smallest = first; } } return smallest; } |
Second version |
template<class ForwardIt, class Compare> ForwardIt min_element(ForwardIt first, ForwardIt last, Compare comp) { if (first == last) return last; ForwardIt smallest = first; ++first; for (; first != last; ++first) { if (comp(*first, *smallest)) { smallest = first; } } return smallest; } |
Example
#include <algorithm> #include <iostream> #include <vector> int main() { std::vector<int> v{3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 9}; std::vector<int>::iterator result = std::min_element(std::begin(v), std::end(v)); std::cout << "min element at: " << std::distance(std::begin(v), result); }
Output:
min element at: 1
See also
returns the largest element in a range (function template) | |
(C++11) | returns the smallest and the largest element in a range (function template) |
returns the smaller of the given values (function template) | |
std::experimental::parallel::min_element
(parallelism TS) | parallelized version of std::min_element (function template) |
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