std::erase, std::erase_if (std::basic_string)

 

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std::basic_string

Member functions basic_string::basic_string basic_string::operator= basic_string::assign basic_string::get_allocator Element access basic_string::at basic_string::operator[] basic_string::front (C++11) basic_string::back (C++11) basic_string::data basic_string::c_str basic_string::operator basic_string_view (C++17) Iterators basic_string::beginbasic_string::cbegin (C++11) basic_string::endbasic_string::cend (C++11) basic_string::rbeginbasic_string::crbegin (C++11) basic_string::rendbasic_string::crend (C++11) Capacity basic_string::empty basic_string::sizebasic_string::length basic_string::max_size basic_string::reserve basic_string::capacity basic_string::shrink_to_fit (C++11)

Operations basic_string::clear basic_string::insert basic_string::erase basic_string::push_back basic_string::pop_back (C++11) basic_string::append basic_string::operator+= basic_string::compare basic_string::starts_with (C++20) basic_string::ends_with (C++20) basic_string::replace basic_string::substr basic_string::copy basic_string::resize basic_string::swap Search basic_string::find basic_string::rfind basic_string::find_first_of basic_string::find_first_not_of basic_string::find_last_of basic_string::find_last_not_of Constants basic_string::npos

Non-member functions operator+ swap(std::basic_string) operator""s (C++14) erase(std::basic_string)erase_if(std::basic_string) (C++20)(C++20) I/O operator<<operator>> getline Comparison operator==operator!=operator<operator>operator<=operator>=operator<=> (until C++20)(until C++20)(until C++20)(until C++20)(until C++20)(C++20) Numeric conversion (C++11) stoistolstoll stoulstoull stofstodstold to_string to_wstring Helper classes hash<std::string>hash<std::wstring>hash<std::u32string>hash<std::u16string>hash<std::u8string> (C++11)(C++11)(C++11)(C++11)(C++20) hash<std::pmr::string>hash<std::pmr::wstring>hash<std::pmr::u32string>hash<std::pmr::u16string>hash<std::pmr::u8string> (C++20)(C++20)(C++20)(C++20)(C++20) Deduction guides(C++17)

 

Defined in header <string>
template< class CharT, class Traits, class Alloc, class U > constexpr typename std::basic_string<CharT,Traits,Alloc>::size_type     erase(std::basic_string<CharT,Traits,Alloc>& c, const U& value);	(1)	(since C++20)
template< class CharT, class Traits, class Alloc, class Pred > constexpr typename std::basic_string<CharT,Traits,Alloc>::size_type     erase_if(std::basic_string<CharT,Traits,Alloc>& c, Pred pred);	(2)	(since C++20)

1) Erases all elements that compare equal to value from the container. Equivalent to

auto it = std::remove(c.begin(), c.end(), value);
auto r = std::distance(it, c.end());
c.erase(it, c.end());
return r;

2) Erases all elements that satisfy the predicate pred from the container. Equivalent to

auto it = std::remove_if(c.begin(), c.end(), pred);
auto r = std::distance(it, c.end());
c.erase(it, c.end());
return r;

Parameters

c	-	container from which to erase
value	-	value to be removed
pred	-	unary predicate which returns ​true if the element should be erased. The expression pred(v) must be convertible to bool for every argument v of type (possibly const) CharT, regardless of value category, and must not modify v. Thus, a parameter type of CharT&is not allowed, nor is CharT unless for CharT a move is equivalent to a copy (since C++11). ​

Complexity

Linear.

Example

Run this code

#include <iostream>
#include <numeric>
#include <string>
 
void print_container(const std::string& c)
{
    for (auto x : c) {
        std::cout << x << ' ';
    }
    std::cout << '\n';
}
 
int main()
{
    std::string cnt(10, ' ');
    std::iota(cnt.begin(), cnt.end(), '0');
 
    std::cout << "Init:\n";
    print_container(cnt);
 
    std::erase(cnt, '5');
    std::cout << "Erase \'5\':\n";
    print_container(cnt);
 
    std::erase_if(cnt, [](char x) { return (x - '0') % 2 == 0; });
    std::cout << "Erase all even numbers:\n";
    print_container(cnt);
}

Output:

Init:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 
Erase '5':
0 1 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 
Erase all even numbers:
1 3 7 9

See also

removeremove_if

removes elements satisfying specific criteria (function template)