std::reverse

Defined in header `<algorithm>`
template< class BidirIt > void reverse( BidirIt first, BidirIt last );	(1)
template< class ExecutionPolicy, class BidirIt > void reverse( ExecutionPolicy&& policy, BidirIt first, BidirIt last );	(2)	(since C++17)

1) Reverses the order of the elements in the range [first, last)

Behaves as if applying std::iter_swap to every pair of iterators first+i, (last-i) - 1 for each non-negative i < (last-first)/2

2) Same as (1), but executed according to policy. This overload does not participate in overload resolution unless std::is_execution_policy_v<std::decay_t<ExecutionPolicy>> is true

Parameters

first, last	-	the range of elements to reverse
policy	-	the execution policy to use. See execution policy for details.
Type requirements
- `BidirIt` must meet the requirements of `ValueSwappable` and `BidirectionalIterator`.

Return value

(none)

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 three 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 BidirIt>
void reverse(BidirIt first, BidirIt last)
{
    while ((first != last) && (first != --last)) {
        std::iter_swap(first++, last);
    }
}

Example

Run this code

#include <vector>
#include <iostream>
#include <iterator>
#include <algorithm>
 
int main()
{
    std::vector<int> v({1,2,3});
    std::reverse(std::begin(v), std::end(v));
    std::cout << v[0] << v[1] << v[2] << '\n';
 
    int a[] = {4, 5, 6, 7};
    std::reverse(std::begin(a), std::end(a));
    std::cout << a[0] << a[1] << a[2] << a[3] << '\n';
}

Output:

321
7654

Complexity

linear in the distance between first and last

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