STL partition

Partition range in two

template <class BidirectionalIterator, class UnaryPredicate>
  BidirectionalIterator partition (BidirectionalIterator first,
                                   BidirectionalIterator last, UnaryPredicate pred);

Rearranges the elements from the range [first,last), in such a way that all the elements for which pred returnstrue precede all those for which it returns false. The iterator returned points to the first element of the second group.

（将first和last之间的元素重新排列，按照pred的值进行，为true的元素放到前面，false则放到后面）

template <class BidirectionalIterator, class UnaryPredicate>
  BidirectionalIterator partition (BidirectionalIterator first,
                                   BidirectionalIterator last, UnaryPredicate pred)
{
  while (first!=last) {
    while (pred(*first)) {
      ++first;
      if (first==last) return first;
    }
    do {
      --last;
      if (first==last) return first;
    } while (!pred(*last));
    swap (*first,*last);
    ++first;
  }
  return first;
}

Example

// partition algorithm example
#include <iostream>     // std::cout
#include <algorithm>    // std::partition
#include <vector>       // std::vector

bool IsOdd (int i) { return (i%2)==1; }

int main () {
  std::vector<int> myvector;

  // set some values:
  for (int i=1; i<10; ++i) myvector.push_back(i); // 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

  std::vector<int>::iterator bound;
  bound = std::partition (myvector.begin(), myvector.end(), IsOdd);

  // print out content:
  std::cout << "odd elements:";
  for (std::vector<int>::iterator it=myvector.begin(); it!=bound; ++it)
    std::cout << ' ' << *it;
  std::cout << '\n';

  std::cout << "even elements:";
  for (std::vector<int>::iterator it=bound; it!=myvector.end(); ++it)
    std::cout << ' ' << *it;
  std::cout << '\n';

  return 0;
}

注意：此算法is not stable   （不维持元素之间相对顺序）