1) Assigns the given value to all elements in the range [first, last).

2) Same as (1), but executed according to policy.

If value is not writable to first, the program is ill-formed.

Parameters

Complexity

Exactly std::distance(first, last) assignments.

Exceptions

The overload with a template parameter named ExecutionPolicy reports errors as follows:

• If execution of a function invoked as part of the algorithm throws an exception and ExecutionPolicy is one of the standard policies, std::terminate is called. For any other ExecutionPolicy, the behavior is implementation-defined.
• If the algorithm fails to allocate memory, std::bad_alloc is thrown.

Possible implementation

template<class ForwardIt,
         class T = typename std::iterator_traits<ForwardIt>::value_type>
void fill(ForwardIt first, ForwardIt last, const T& value)
{
    for (; first != last; ++first)
        *first = value;
}

Notes

Example

#include <algorithm>
#include <complex>
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>

void println(const auto& seq)
{
    for (const auto& e : seq)
        std::cout << e << ' ';
    std::cout << '\n';
}

int main()
{
    std::vector<int> v{0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8};
    println(v);
    
    // set all of the elements to 8
    std::fill(v.begin(), v.end(), 8);
    println(v);

    std::vector<std::complex<double>> nums{{1, 3}, {2, 2}, {4, 8}};
    println(nums);
    #ifdef __cpp_lib_algorithm_default_value_type
        std::fill(nums.begin(), nums.end(), {4, 2});
    #else
        std::fill(nums.begin(), nums.end(), std::complex<double>{4, 2});
    #endif
    println(nums);
}

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8
(1,3) (2,2) (4,8) 
(4,2) (4,2) (4,2)

Defect reports

The following behavior-changing defect reports were applied retroactively to previously published C++ standards.

See also