std:: set_intersection

Constructs a sorted range beginning at d_first consisting of elements that are found in both sorted ranges [ first1 , last1 ) and [ first2 , last2 ) .

If [ first1 , last1 ) contains m elements that are equivalent to each other and [ first2 , last2 ) contains n elements that are equivalent to them, the first std:: min ( m, n ) elements will be copied from [ first1 , last1 ) to the output range, preserving order.

If the output range overlaps with [ first1 , last1 ) or [ first2 , last2 ) , the behavior is undefined.

Parameters

Return value

Iterator past the end of the constructed range.

Complexity

Given \(\scriptsize N_1\) N 1 as std:: distance ( first1, last1 ) and \(\scriptsize N_2\) N 2 as std:: distance ( first2, last2 ) :

Exceptions

The overloads with a template parameter named ExecutionPolicy report 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 InputIt1, class InputIt2, class OutputIt>
OutputIt set_intersection(InputIt1 first1, InputIt1 last1,
                          InputIt2 first2, InputIt2 last2, OutputIt d_first)
{
    while (first1 != last1 && first2 != last2)
    {
        if (*first1 < *first2)
            ++first1;
        else
        {
            if (!(*first2 < *first1))
                *d_first++ = *first1++; // *first1 and *first2 are equivalent.
            ++first2;
        }
    }
    return d_first;
}

template<class InputIt1, class InputIt2, class OutputIt, class Compare>
OutputIt set_intersection(InputIt1 first1, InputIt1 last1,
                          InputIt2 first2, InputIt2 last2, OutputIt d_first, Compare comp)
{
    while (first1 != last1 && first2 != last2)
    {
        if (comp(*first1, *first2))
            ++first1;
        else
        {
            if (!comp(*first2, *first1))
                *d_first++ = *first1++; // *first1 and *first2 are equivalent.
            ++first2;
        }
    }
    return d_first;
}

Example

#include <algorithm>
#include <iostream>
#include <iterator>
#include <vector>
 
int main()
{
    std::vector<int> v1{7, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8};
    std::vector<int> v2{5, 7, 9, 7};
    std::sort(v1.begin(), v1.end());
    std::sort(v2.begin(), v2.end());
 
    std::vector<int> v_intersection;
    std::set_intersection(v1.begin(), v1.end(), v2.begin(), v2.end(),
                          std::back_inserter(v_intersection));
 
    for (int n : v_intersection)
        std::cout << n << ' ';
    std::cout << '\n';
}

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Defect reports

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

See also