std::find_end

Defined in header `<algorithm>`
template< class ForwardIt1, class ForwardIt2 > ForwardIt1 find_end( ForwardIt1 first, ForwardIt1 last, ForwardIt2 s_first, ForwardIt2 s_last );	(1)
template< class ExecutionPolicy, class ForwardIt1, class ForwardIt2 > ForwardIt1 find_end( ExecutionPolicy&& policy, ForwardIt1 first, ForwardIt1 last, ForwardIt2 s_first, ForwardIt2 s_last );	(2)	(since C++17)
template< class ForwardIt1, class ForwardIt2, class BinaryPredicate > ForwardIt1 find_end( ForwardIt1 first, ForwardIt1 last, ForwardIt2 s_first, ForwardIt2 s_last, BinaryPredicate p );	(3)
template< class ExecutionPolicy, class ForwardIt1, class ForwardIt2, class BinaryPredicate > ForwardIt1 find_end( ExecutionPolicy&& policy, ForwardIt1 first, ForwardIt1 last, ForwardIt2 s_first, ForwardIt2 s_last, BinaryPredicate p );	(4)	(since C++17)

Searches for the last subsequence of elements [s_first, s_last) in the range [first, last).

1) Elements are compared using operator==.

3) Elements are compared using the given binary predicate p.

2,4) Same as (1,3), but executed according to policy. These overloads do 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 examine
s_first, s_last	-	the range of elements to search for
policy	-	the execution policy to use. See execution policy for details.
p	-	binary predicate which returns true if the elements should be treated as equal. The signature of the predicate function should be equivalent to the following: bool pred(const Type1 &a, const Type2 &b); The signature does not need to have const &, but the function must not modify the objects passed to it. The types Type1 and Type2 must be such that objects of types ForwardIt1 and ForwardIt2 can be dereferenced and then implicitly converted to Type1 and Type2 respectively.
Type requirements
- `ForwardIt1` must meet the requirements of `ForwardIterator`.
- `ForwardIt2` must meet the requirements of `ForwardIterator`.

Return value

Iterator to the beginning of last subsequence [s_first, s_last) in range [first, last).

If no such subsequence is found, `last` is returned.	(until C++11)
If `[s_first, s_last)` is empty or if no such subsequence is found, `last` is returned.	(since C++11)

Complexity

Does at most S*(N-S+1) comparisons where S = distance(s_first, s_last) and N = distance(first, last).

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 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

First version

template<class ForwardIt1, class ForwardIt2>
ForwardIt1 find_end(ForwardIt1 first, ForwardIt1 last,
                    ForwardIt2 s_first, ForwardIt2 s_last)
{
    if (s_first == s_last)
        return last;
    ForwardIt1 result = last;
    while (1) {
        ForwardIt1 new_result = std::search(first, last, s_first, s_last);
        if (new_result == last) {
            return result;
        } else {
            result = new_result;
            first = result;
            ++first;
        }
    }
    return result;
}

Second version

template<class ForwardIt1, class ForwardIt2, class BinaryPredicate>
ForwardIt1 find_end(ForwardIt1 first, ForwardIt1 last,
                    ForwardIt2 s_first, ForwardIt2 s_last,
                    BinaryPredicate p)
{
    if (s_first == s_last)
        return last;
    ForwardIt1 result = last;
    while (1) {
        ForwardIt1 new_result = std::search(first, last, s_first, s_last, p);
        if (new_result == last) {
            return result;
        } else {
            result = new_result;
            first = result;
            ++first;
        }
    }
    return result;
}

Example

The following code uses find_end() to search for two different sequences of numbers.

Run this code

#include <algorithm>
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
 
int main()
{
    std::vector<int> v{1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4};
    std::vector<int>::iterator result;
 
    std::vector<int> t1{1, 2, 3};
 
    result = std::find_end(v.begin(), v.end(), t1.begin(), t1.end());
    if (result == v.end()) {
        std::cout << "subsequence not found\n";
    } else {
        std::cout << "last subsequence is at: "
                  << std::distance(v.begin(), result) << "\n";
    }
 
    std::vector<int> t2{4, 5, 6};
    result = std::find_end(v.begin(), v.end(), t2.begin(), t2.end());
    if (result == v.end()) {
        std::cout << "subsequence not found\n";
    } else {
        std::cout << "last subsequence is at: " 
                  << std::distance(v.begin(), result) << "\n";
    }
}

Output:

last subsequence is at: 8
subsequence not found

Language
Standard library headers
Concepts
Utilities library
Strings library
Containers library
Algorithms library
Iterators library
Numerics library
Input/output library
Localizations library
Regular expressions library (C++11)
Atomic operations library (C++11)
Thread support library (C++11)
Filesystem library (C++17)
Technical Specifications

search	searches for a range of elements (function template)
includes	returns true if one set is a subset of another (function template)
adjacent_find	finds the first two adjacent items that are equal (or satisfy a given predicate) (function template)
findfind_iffind_if_not (C++11)	finds the first element satisfying specific criteria (function template)
find_first_of	searches for any one of a set of elements (function template)
search_n	searches for a number consecutive copies of an element in a range (function template)