std::placeholders::_1, std::placeholders::_2, ..., std::placeholders::_N - cppreference.com (original) (raw)

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The std::placeholders namespace contains the placeholder objects [_1, ..., _N] where N is an implementation defined maximum number.

When used as an argument in a std::bind expression, the placeholder objects are stored in the generated function object, and when that function object is invoked with unbound arguments, each placeholder _N is replaced by the corresponding Nth unbound argument.

Each placeholder is declared as if by extern /*unspecified*/ _1;. (until C++17)
Implementations are encouraged to declare the placeholders as if by inline constexpr /*unspecified*/ _1;, although declaring them by extern /*unspecified*/ _1; is still allowed by the standard. (since C++17)

The types of the placeholder objects are DefaultConstructible and CopyConstructible, their default copy/move constructors do not throw exceptions, and for any placeholder _N, the type std::is_placeholder<decltype(_N)> is defined, where std::is_placeholder<decltype(_N)> is derived from std::integral_constant<int, N>.

[edit] Example

The following code shows the creation of function objects with placeholder arguments.

#include #include #include   void goodbye(const std::string& s) { std::cout << "Goodbye " << s << '\n'; }   class Object { public: void hello(const std::string& s) { std::cout << "Hello " << s << '\n'; } };   int main() { using namespace std::placeholders;   using ExampleFunction = std::function<void(const std::string&)>; Object instance; std::string str("World");   ExampleFunction f = std::bind(&Object::hello, &instance, _1); f(str); // equivalent to instance.hello(str)   f = std::bind(&goodbye, std::placeholders::_1); f(str); // equivalent to goodbye(str)   auto lambda = pre, char o, int rep, std::string post) { std::cout << pre; while (rep-- > 0) std::cout << o; std::cout << post << '\n'; };   // binding the lambda: std::function<void(std::string, char, int, std::string)> g = std::bind(&decltype(lambda)::operator(), &lambda, _1, _2, _3, _4); g("G", 'o', 'o'-'g', "gol"); }

Output:

Hello World Goodbye World Goooooooogol

[edit] See also

| | binds one or more arguments to a function object (function template) [edit] | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | indicates that an object is a standard placeholder or can be used as one (class template) [edit] | | | placeholder to skip an element when unpacking a tuple using tie (constant) [edit] |