min_element

September 4, 2019 ยท View on GitHub

Description : Returns an iterator to the smallest element in a range defined by [first, last).

Example:

    std::vector<int> vec = {3, -1, 2, 10, 4};

    auto smallestIt = std::min_element(vec.begin(), vec.end()); 
    // prints -1
    std::cout << "The smallest element is " << *smallestIt << '\n';

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