std::iota
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Defined in header 
 
 
<numeric> 
 template< class ForwardIt, class T >
void iota( ForwardIt first, ForwardIt last, T value );
 
 (since C++11) void iota( ForwardIt first, ForwardIt last, T value );
(constexpr since C++20)
Fills the range [first, last) with sequentially increasing values, starting with value and repetitively evaluating ++value.
Equivalent operation (assuming ++value returns the incremented value):
*first = value; *++first = ++value; *++first = ++value; *++first = ++value; // repeats until "last" is reached
If any of the following conditions is satisfied, the program is ill-formed:
-  Tis not convertible to the value type ofForwardIt.
-  The expression ++val is ill-formed, where val is a variable of type T.
[edit] Parameters
 first, last
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 the pair of iterators defining the range of elements to fill with sequentially increasing values starting with value
 value
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 initial value to store
[edit] Complexity
Exactly std::distance (first, last) increments and assignments.
[edit] Possible implementation
template<class ForwardIt, class T> constexpr // since C++20 void iota(ForwardIt first, ForwardIt last, T value) { for (; first != last; ++first, ++value) *first = value; }
[edit] Notes
The function is named after the integer function ⍳ from the programming language APL. It was one of the STL components that were not included in C++98, but made it into the standard library in C++11.
[edit] Example
The following example applies std::shuffle  to a vector  of std::list s' iterators. std::iota is used to populate containers.
Run this code
#include <algorithm> #include <iomanip> #include <iostream> #include <list> #include <numeric> #include <random> #include <vector> class BigData // inefficient to copy { int data[1024]; /* some raw data */ public: explicit BigData(int i = 0) { data[0] = i; /* ... */ } operator int() const { return data[0]; } BigData& operator=(int i) { data[0] = i; return *this; } /* ... */ }; int main() { std::list <BigData> l(10); std::iota(l.begin(), l.end(), -4); std::vector <std::list <BigData>::iterator> v(l.size()); std::iota(v.begin(), v.end(), l.begin()); // Vector of iterators (to original data) is used to avoid expensive copying, // and because std::shuffle (below) cannot be applied to a std::list directly. std::shuffle (v.begin(), v.end(), std::mt19937 {std::random_device {}()}); std::cout << "Original contents of the list l:\t"; for (const auto& n : l) std::cout << std::setw (2) << n << ' '; std::cout << '\n'; std::cout << "Contents of l, viewed via shuffled v:\t"; for (const auto i : v) std::cout << std::setw (2) << *i << ' '; std::cout << '\n'; }
Possible output:
Original contents of the list l: -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 Contents of l, viewed via shuffled v: -1 5 -4 0 2 1 4 -2 3 -3
[edit] See also
(C++23)
(algorithm function object)[edit]
 
 assigns the results of successive function calls to every element in a range 
(function template) [edit]
(function template) [edit]
(C++20)
view consisting of a sequence generated by repeatedly incrementing an initial value(class template) (customization point object)[edit]