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Syntax:
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<pre class="c code c++" style="font-family:monospace;"> <span class="co2">#include <list></span>
iterator end<span class="br0">(</span><span class="br0">)</span><span class="sy0">;</span>
const_iterator end<span class="br0">(</span><span class="br0">)</span> <span class="kw4">const</span><span class="sy0">;</span></pre>
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The end() function returns an iterator just past the end of the list.
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Note that before you can access the last element of the list using an iterator
that you get from a call to end(), you'll have to decrement the iterator first.
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For example, the following code uses begin() and end() to iterate through all
of the members of a list:
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<pre class="c code c++" style="font-family:monospace;"> list<span class="sy0"><</span>int<span class="sy0">></span> v1<span class="br0">(</span> 5<span class="sy0">,</span> 789 <span class="br0">)</span><span class="sy0">;</span>
list<span class="sy0"><</span>int<span class="sy0">>::</span><span class="me2">iterator</span> it<span class="sy0">;</span>
<span class="kw1">for</span><span class="br0">(</span> it <span class="sy0">=</span> v1.<span class="me1">begin</span><span class="br0">(</span><span class="br0">)</span><span class="sy0">;</span> it <span class="sy0">!=</span> v1.<span class="me1">end</span><span class="br0">(</span><span class="br0">)</span><span class="sy0">;</span> <span class="sy0">++</span>it <span class="br0">)</span> <span class="br0">{</span>
<a href="http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/cout.html"><span class="kw3">cout</span></a> <span class="sy0"><<</span> <span class="sy0">*</span>it <span class="sy0"><<</span> endl<span class="sy0">;</span>
<span class="br0">}</span></pre>
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The iterator is initialized with a call to begin(). After the body of the loop
has been executed, the iterator is incremented and tested to see if it is equal
to the result of calling end(). Since end() returns an iterator pointing to an
element just after the last element of the vector, the loop will only stop once
all of the elements of the vector have been displayed.
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end() runs in <a href="../../complexity.html" class="wikilink1" title="complexity">constant time</a>.
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Related Topics: <a href="../../stl/list/begin.html" class="wikilink1" title="stl:list:begin">begin</a>, <a href="../../stl/list/rbegin.html" class="wikilink1" title="stl:list:rbegin">rbegin</a>, <a href="../../stl/list/rend.html" class="wikilink1" title="stl:list:rend">rend</a>
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