C++ Deque Library - size() Function

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Description

The C++ function std::deque::size() returns the total number of elements present in the deque.

Declaration

Following is the declaration for std::deque::size() function form std::deque header.

C++98

size_type size() const;

C++11

size_type size() const noexcept;

Parameters

None

Return value

Returns the number of elements present in the deque.

Exceptions

This member function never throws exception.

Time complexity

Constant i.e. O(1)

Example

The following example shows the usage of std::deque::size() function.

#include <iostream>
#include <deque>

using namespace std;

int main(void) {

   deque<int> d;

   cout << "Initial size of deque = " << d.size() << endl;

   d.assign(1, 1);

   cout << "Size of deque after assign = " << d.size() << endl;

   return 0;
}

Let us compile and run the above program, this will produce the following result −

Initial size of deque = 0
Size of deque after assign = 1