Sequence-zip function for c++11?

Warning: boost::zip_iterator and boost::combine as of Boost 1.63.0 (2016 Dec 26) will cause undefined behavior if the length of the input containers are not the same (it may crash or iterate beyond the end).

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Starting from Boost 1.56.0 (2014 Aug 7) you could use boost::combine (the function exists in earlier versions but undocumented):

#include <boost/range/combine.hpp>
#include <vector>
#include <list>
#include <string>

int main() {
    std::vector<int> a {4, 5, 6};
    double b[] = {7, 8, 9};
    std::list<std::string> c {"a", "b", "c"};
    for (auto tup : boost::combine(a, b, c, a)) {    // <---
        int x, w;
        double y;
        std::string z;
        boost::tie(x, y, z, w) = tup;
        printf("%d %g %s %d\n", x, y, z.c_str(), w);
    }
}

This would print

4 7 a 4
5 8 b 5
6 9 c 6

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In earlier versions, you could define a range yourself like this:

#include <boost/iterator/zip_iterator.hpp>
#include <boost/range.hpp>

template <typename... T>
auto zip(T&&... containers) -> boost::iterator_range<boost::zip_iterator<decltype(boost::make_tuple(std::begin(containers)...))>>
{
    auto zip_begin = boost::make_zip_iterator(boost::make_tuple(std::begin(containers)...));
    auto zip_end = boost::make_zip_iterator(boost::make_tuple(std::end(containers)...));
    return boost::make_iterator_range(zip_begin, zip_end);
}

The usage is the same.

So I wrote this zip before when I was bored, I decided to post it because it's different than the others in that it doesn't use boost and looks more like the c++ stdlib.

template <typename Iterator>
    void advance_all (Iterator & iterator) {
        ++iterator;
    }
template <typename Iterator, typename ... Iterators>
    void advance_all (Iterator & iterator, Iterators& ... iterators) {
        ++iterator;
        advance_all(iterators...);
    } 
template <typename Function, typename Iterator, typename ... Iterators>
    Function zip (Function func, Iterator begin, 
            Iterator end, 
            Iterators ... iterators)
    {
        for(;begin != end; ++begin, advance_all(iterators...))
            func(*begin, *(iterators)... );
        //could also make this a tuple
        return func;
    }

Example use:

int main () {
    std::vector<int> v1{1,2,3};
    std::vector<int> v2{3,2,1};
    std::vector<float> v3{1.2,2.4,9.0};
    std::vector<float> v4{1.2,2.4,9.0};
     zip (
            [](int i,int j,float k,float l){
                std::cout << i << " " << j << " " << k << " " << l << std::endl;
            },
            v1.begin(),v1.end(),v2.begin(),v3.begin(),v4.begin());
}

std::transform can do this trivially:

std::vector<int> a = {1,2,3,4,5};
std::vector<int> b = {1,2,3,4,5};
std::vector<int>c;
std::transform(a.begin(),a.end(), b.begin(),
               std::back_inserter(c),
               [](const auto& aa, const auto& bb)
               {
                   return aa*bb;
               });
for(auto cc:c)
    std::cout<<cc<<std::endl;

If the second sequence is shorter, my implementation seems to be giving default initialized values.