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26}; 27</pre> 28</div> 29<div class="section" id="id600"> 30<h3><a class="subsection-title" href="#description" name="description">Description</a></h3> 31<p>Returns an iterator to the largest element in <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">Sequence</span></tt>.</p> 32</div> 33<div class="section" id="id601"> 34<h3><a class="subsection-title" href="#header" name="header">Header</a></h3> 35<pre class="literal-block"> 36#include <<a href="../../../../boost/mpl/max_element.hpp" class="header">boost/mpl/max_element.hpp</a>> 37</pre> 38</div> 39<div class="section" id="id602"> 40<h3><a class="subsection-title" href="#parameters" name="parameters">Parameters</a></h3> 41<table border="1" class="docutils table"> 42<colgroup> 43<col width="19%" /> 44<col width="38%" /> 45<col width="43%" /> 46</colgroup> 47<thead valign="bottom"> 48<tr><th class="head">Parameter</th> 49<th class="head">Requirement</th> 50<th class="head">Description</th> 51</tr> 52</thead> 53<tbody valign="top"> 54<tr><td><tt class="literal"><span class="pre">Sequence</span></tt></td> 55<td><a class="reference internal" href="./forward-sequence.html">Forward Sequence</a></td> 56<td>A sequence to be searched.</td> 57</tr> 58<tr><td><tt class="literal"><span class="pre">Pred</span></tt></td> 59<td>Binary <a class="reference internal" href="./lambda-expression.html">Lambda Expression</a></td> 60<td>A comparison criteria.</td> 61</tr> 62</tbody> 63</table> 64</div> 65<div class="section" id="id603"> 66<h3><a class="subsection-title" href="#expression-semantics" name="expression-semantics">Expression semantics</a></h3> 67<p>For any <a class="reference internal" href="./forward-sequence.html">Forward Sequence</a> <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">s</span></tt> and binary <a class="reference internal" href="./lambda-expression.html">Lambda Expression</a> <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">pred</span></tt>:</p> 68<pre class="literal-block"> 69typedef <a href="./max-element.html" class="identifier">max_element</a><s,pred>::type i; 70</pre> 71<table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none"> 72<col class="field-name" /> 73<col class="field-body" /> 74<tbody valign="top"> 75<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Return type:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first"><a class="reference internal" href="./forward-iterator.html">Forward Iterator</a>.</p> 76</td> 77</tr> 78<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Semantics:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first"><tt class="literal"><span class="pre">i</span></tt> is the first iterator in [<tt class="literal"><span class="pre"><a href="./begin.html" class="identifier">begin</a><s>::type</span></tt>, <tt class="literal"><span class="pre"><a href="./end.html" class="identifier">end</a><s>::type</span></tt>) such that for every iterator <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">j</span></tt> 79in [<tt class="literal"><span class="pre"><a href="./begin.html" class="identifier">begin</a><s>::type</span></tt>, <tt class="literal"><span class="pre"><a href="./end.html" class="identifier">end</a><s>::type</span></tt>),</p> 80<pre class="last literal-block"> 81<a href="./apply.html" class="identifier">apply</a>< pred, <a href="./deref.html" class="identifier">deref</a><i>::type, <a href="./deref.html" class="identifier">deref</a><j>::type >::type::value == false 82</pre> 83</td> 84</tr> 85</tbody> 86</table> 87</div> 88<div class="section" id="id604"> 89<h3><a class="subsection-title" href="#complexity" name="complexity">Complexity</a></h3> 90<p>Linear. Zero comparisons if <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">s</span></tt> is empty, otherwise exactly <tt class="literal"><span class="pre"><a href="./size.html" class="identifier">size</a><s>::value</span> <span class="pre">-</span> <span class="pre">1</span></tt> 91comparisons.</p> 92</div> 93<div class="section" id="id605"> 94<h3><a class="subsection-title" href="#example" name="example">Example</a></h3> 95<pre class="literal-block"> 96typedef <a href="./vector.html" class="identifier">vector</a><bool,char[50],long,double> types; 97typedef <a href="./max-element.html" class="identifier">max_element</a>< 98 <a href="./transform-view.html" class="identifier">transform_view</a>< types,<a href="./sizeof.html" class="identifier">sizeof_</a><<a href="./placeholders.html" class="identifier">_1</a>> > 99 >::type iter; 100 101<a href="./assert.html" class="identifier">BOOST_MPL_ASSERT</a>(( is_same< <a href="./deref.html" class="identifier">deref</a><iter::base>::type, char[50]> )); 102</pre> 103</div> 104<div class="section" id="id606"> 105<h3><a class="subsection-title" href="#see-also" name="see-also">See also</a></h3> 106<p><a class="reference internal" href="./querying-algorithms.html">Querying Algorithms</a>, <a class="reference internal" href="./min-element.html">min_element</a>, <a class="reference internal" href="./find-if.html">find_if</a>, <a class="reference internal" href="./upper-bound.html">upper_bound</a>, <a class="reference internal" href="./find.html">find</a></p> 107<!-- Algorithms/Querying Algorithms//equal |100 --> 108</div> 109</div> 110 111<div class="footer-separator"></div> 112<table class="footer"><tr class="footer"><td class="header-group navigation-bar"><span class="navigation-group"><a href="./min-element.html" class="navigation-link">Prev</a> <a href="./equal.html" class="navigation-link">Next</a></span><span class="navigation-group-separator"> | </span><span class="navigation-group"><a href="./min-element.html" class="navigation-link">Back</a> <a href="./equal.html" class="navigation-link">Along</a></span><span class="navigation-group-separator"> | </span><span class="navigation-group"><a href="./querying-algorithms.html" class="navigation-link">Up</a> <a href="../refmanual.html" class="navigation-link">Home</a></span><span class="navigation-group-separator"> | </span><span class="navigation-group"><a href="./refmanual_toc.html" class="navigation-link">Full TOC</a></span></td> 113<td><div class="copyright-footer"><div class="copyright">Copyright © 2001-2009 Aleksey Gurtovoy and David Abrahams</div> 114Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. 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