Copies the left rotation of [first, last) to result.

1) Copies the elements from the source range [first, last), such that in the destination range, the elements in [first, middle) are placed after the elements in [middle, last) while the orders of the elements in both ranges are preserved.

The behavior is undefined if either [first, middle) or [middle, last) is not a valid range, or the source and destination ranges overlap.

2) Same as (1), but uses r as the source range, as if using ranges::begin(r) as first and ranges::end(r) as last.

The function-like entities described on this page are algorithm function objects (informally known as niebloids), that is:

• Explicit template argument lists cannot be specified when calling any of them.
• None of them are visible to argument-dependent lookup.
• When any of them are found by normal unqualified lookup as the name to the left of the function-call operator, argument-dependent lookup is inhibited.

Parameters

Return value

{last, result + N}, where N = ranges::distance(first, last).

Complexity

Linear: exactly N assignments.

Notes

If the value type is TriviallyCopyable and the iterator types satisfy contiguous_iterator, implementations of ranges::rotate_copy usually avoid multiple assignments by using a "bulk copy" function such as std::memmove.

Possible implementation

See also the implementations in libstdc++ and MSVC STL.

struct rotate_copy_fn
{
    template<std::forward_iterator I, std::sentinel_for<I> S, std::weakly_incrementable O>
    requires std::indirectly_copyable<I, O>
    constexpr ranges::rotate_copy_result<I, O>
        operator()(I first, I middle, S last, O result) const
    {
        auto c1 {ranges::copy(middle, std::move(last), std::move(result))};
        auto c2 {ranges::copy(std::move(first), std::move(middle), std::move(c1.out))};
        return {std::move(c1.in), std::move(c2.out)};
    }

    template<ranges::forward_range R, std::weakly_incrementable O>
    requires std::indirectly_copyable<ranges::iterator_t<R>, O>
    constexpr ranges::rotate_copy_result<ranges::borrowed_iterator_t<R>, O>
        operator()(R&& r, ranges::iterator_t<R> middle, O result) const
    {
        return (*this)(ranges::begin(r), std::move(middle),
                       ranges::end(r), std::move(result));
    }
};

inline constexpr rotate_copy_fn rotate_copy {};

Example

#include <algorithm>
#include <iostream>
#include <iterator>
#include <vector>

int main()
{
    std::vector<int> src {1, 2, 3, 4, 5};
    std::vector<int> dest(src.size());
    auto pivot = std::ranges::find(src, 3);

    std::ranges::rotate_copy(src, pivot, dest.begin());
    for (int i : dest)
        std::cout << i << ' ';
    std::cout << '\n';

    // copy the rotation result directly to the std::cout
    pivot = std::ranges::find(dest, 1);
    std::ranges::rotate_copy(dest, pivot, std::ostream_iterator<int>(std::cout, " "));
    std::cout << '\n';
}

See also