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Visual Studio 2012

Retrieves an iterator to the first element in a specified container.

C++

template<class Container>
    auto begin(Container& cont)
        -> decltype(cont.begin());
template<class Container>
    auto begin(const Container& cont) 
        -> decltype(cont.begin());
template<class Ty, class Size>
    Ty *begin(Ty (&array)[Size]);

Parameters

cont: A container.
array: An array of objects of type Ty.

Return Value

The first two template functions return cont.begin().

The third template function returns &array[0].

Requirements

Header: <iterator>

Namespace: std

Reference

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