std::replace, std::replace_if

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Defined in header <algorithm>
template< class ForwardIt, class T >

void replace( ForwardIt first, ForwardIt last,

              const T& old_value, const T& new_value );
(1)
template< class ExecutionPolicy, class ForwardIt, class T >

void replace( ExecutionPolicy&& policy, ForwardIt first, ForwardIt last,

              const T& old_value, const T& new_value );
(2) (since C++17)
template< class ForwardIt, class UnaryPredicate, class T >

void replace_if( ForwardIt first, ForwardIt last,

                 UnaryPredicate p, const T& new_value );
(3)
template< class ExecutionPolicy, class ForwardIt, class UnaryPredicate, class T >

void replace_if( ExecutionPolicy&& policy, ForwardIt first, ForwardIt last,

                 UnaryPredicate p, const T& new_value );
(4) (since C++17)

Replaces all elements satisfying specific criteria with new_value in the range [first, last).

1) Replaces all elements that are equal to old_value.
3) Replaces all elements for which predicate p returns true.
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

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[edit] Parameters

first, last - the range of elements to process
old_value - the value of elements to replace
policy - the execution policy to use. See execution policy for details.
p - unary predicate which returns ​true if the element value should be replaced.

The signature of the predicate function should be equivalent to the following:

 bool pred(const Type &a);

The signature does not need to have const &, but the function must not modify the objects passed to it.
The type Type must be such that an object of type ForwardIt can be dereferenced and then implicitly converted to Type. ​

new_value - the value to use as replacement
Type requirements
-
ForwardIt must meet the requirements of ForwardIterator.
-
UnaryPredicate must meet the requirements of Predicate.

[edit] Return value

(none)

[edit] Complexity

Exactly last - first applications of the predicate.

[edit] 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,
  • if policy is std::parallel_vector_execution_policy, std::terminate is called
  • if policy is std::sequential_execution_policy or std::parallel_execution_policy, the algorithm exits with an std::exception_list containing all uncaught exceptions. If there was only one uncaught exception, the algorithm may rethrow it without wrapping in std::exception_list. It is unspecified how much work the algorithm will perform before returning after the first exception was encountered.
  • if policy is some other type, the behavior is implementation-defined
  • If the algorithm fails to allocate memory (either for itself or to construct an std::exception_list when handling a user exception), std::bad_alloc is thrown.

[edit] Possible implementation

First version
template<class ForwardIt, class T>
void replace(ForwardIt first, ForwardIt last,
             const T& old_value, const T& new_value)
{
    for (; first != last; ++first) {
        if (*first == old_value) {
            *first = new_value;
        }
    }
}
Second version
template<class ForwardIt, class UnaryPredicate, class T>
void replace_if(ForwardIt first, ForwardIt last,
                UnaryPredicate p, const T& new_value)
{
    for (; first != last; ++first) {
        if(p(*first)) {
            *first = new_value;
        }
    }
}

[edit] Example

The following code at first replaces all occurrences of 8 with 88 in a vector of integers. Then it replaces all values less than 5 with 55.

#include <algorithm>
#include <array>
#include <iostream>
#include <functional>
 
int main()
{
    std::array<int, 10> s{5, 7, 4, 2, 8, 6, 1, 9, 0, 3};
 
    std::replace(s.begin(), s.end(), 8, 88);
 
    for (int a : s) {
        std::cout << a << " ";
    }
    std::cout << '\n';
 
    std::replace_if(s.begin(), s.end(), 
                    std::bind(std::less<int>(), std::placeholders::_1, 5), 55);
    for (int a : s) {
        std::cout << a << " ";
    }
    std::cout << '\n';
}

Output:

5 7 4 2 88 6 1 9 0 3
5 7 55 55 88 6 55 9 55 55

[edit] See also

copies a range, replacing elements satisfying specific criteria with another value
(function template)
parallelized version of std::replace
(function template)
parallelized version of std::replace_if
(function template)