26 Ranges library [ranges]

26.5 Range utilities [range.utility]

26.5.7 Range conversions [range.utility.conv]

26.5.7.1 General [range.utility.conv.general]

The range conversion functions construct an object (usually a container) from a range, by using a constructor taking a range, a from_range_t tagged constructor, or a constructor taking a pair of iterators, or by inserting each element of the range into the default-constructed object.

ranges::to is applied recursively, allowing the conversion of a range of ranges.

[Example 1: string_view str = "the quick brown fox"; auto words = views::split(str, ' ') | to<vector<string>>(); // words is vector<string>{"the", "quick", "brown", "fox"} — end example]

Let reservable-container be defined as follows: template<class Container> constexpr bool reservable-container = // exposition only sized_range<Container> && requires(Container& c, range_size_t<Container> n) { c.reserve(n); { c.capacity() } -> same_as<decltype(n)>; { c.max_size() } -> same_as<decltype(n)>; };

Let container-insertable be defined as follows: template<class Container, class Ref> constexpr bool container-insertable = // exposition only requires(Container& c, Ref&& ref) { requires (requires { c.push_back(std::forward<Ref>(ref)); } || requires { c.insert(c.end(), std::forward<Ref>(ref)); }); };

Let container-inserter be defined as follows: template<class Ref, class Container> constexpr auto container-inserter(Container& c) { // exposition only if constexpr (requires { c.push_back(declval<Ref>()); }) return back_inserter(c); else return inserter(c, c.end()); }

26.5.7.2 ranges::to [range.utility.conv.to]

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template<class C, input_range R, class... Args> requires (!view<C>)
  constexpr C to(R&& r, Args&&... args);

Mandates: C is a cv-unqualified class type.

Returns: An object of type C constructed from the elements of r in the following manner:

(2.1)
If C does not satisfy input_range or convertible_to<range_reference_t<R>, range_value_t<C>> is true:
- (2.1.1)
  If constructible_from<C, R, Args...> is true: C(std::forward<R>(r), std::forward<Args>(args)...)
- (2.1.2)
  Otherwise, if constructible_from<C, from_range_t, R, Args...> is true: C(from_range, std::forward<R>(r), std::forward<Args>(args)...)
- (2.1.3)
  Otherwise, if
  - (2.1.3.1)
    common_range<R> is true,
  - (2.1.3.2)
    the qualified-id iterator_traits<iterator_t<R>>::iterator_category is valid and denotes a type that models derived_from<input_iterator_tag>, and
  - (2.1.3.3)
    constructible_from<C, iterator_t<R>, sentinel_t<R>, Args...> is true:
  C(ranges::begin(r), ranges::end(r), std::forward<Args>(args)...)
- (2.1.4)
  Otherwise, if
  - (2.1.4.1)
    constructible_from<C, Args...> is true, and
  - (2.1.4.2)
    container-insertable<C, range_reference_t<R>> is true:
  C c(std::forward<Args>(args)...); if constexpr (sized_range<R> && reservable-container<C>) c.reserve(static_cast<range_size_t<C>>(ranges::size(r))); ranges::copy(r, container-inserter<range_reference_t<R>>(c));
(2.2)
Otherwise, if input_range<range_reference_t<R>> is true: to<C>(r | views::transform([](auto&& elem) { return to<range_value_t<C>>(std::forward<decltype(elem)>(elem)); }), std::forward<Args>(args)...);
(2.3)
Otherwise, the program is ill-formed.

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template<template<class...> class C, input_range R, class... Args>
  constexpr auto to(R&& r, Args&&... args);

Let input-iterator be an exposition-only type: struct input-iterator { // exposition only using iterator_category = input_iterator_tag; using value_type = range_value_t<R>; using difference_type = ptrdiff_t; using pointer = add_pointer_t<range_reference_t<R>>; using reference = range_reference_t<R>; reference operator*() const; pointer operator->() const; input-iterator& operator++(); input-iterator operator++(int); bool operator==(const input-iterator&) const; };

[Note 1:

input-iterator meets the syntactic requirements of Cpp17InputIterator.

— end note]

Let DEDUCE_EXPR be defined as follows:

(4.1)
C(declval<R>(), declval<Args>()...) if that is a valid expression,
(4.2)
otherwise, C(from_range, declval<R>(), declval<Args>()...) if that is a valid expression,
(4.3)
otherwise, C(declval<input-iterator>(), declval<input-iterator>(), declval<Args>()...) if that is a valid expression,
(4.4)
otherwise, the program is ill-formed.

Returns: to<decltype(DEDUCE_EXPR)>(std::forward<R>(r), std::forward<Args>(args)...).

26.5.7.3 ranges::to adaptors [range.utility.conv.adaptors]

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template<class C, class... Args> requires (!view<C>)
  constexpr auto to(Args&&... args);
template<template<class...> class C, class... Args>
  constexpr auto to(Args&&... args);

Mandates: For the first overload, C is a cv-unqualified class type.

Returns: A range adaptor closure object ([range.adaptor.object]) f that is a perfect forwarding call wrapper ([func.require]) with the following properties:

(2.1)
It has no target object.
(2.2)
Its bound argument entities bound_args consist of objects of types decay_t<Args>... direct-non-list-initialized with std::forward<Args>(args)..., respectively.
(2.3)
Its call pattern is to<C>(r, bound_args...), where r is the argument used in a function call expression of f.