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Finding min and max values in a C++ standard container

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Find min max element in c++ containers
Table Of Contents
  1. Min_element() and max_element()
  2. Finding the minimum or the maximum value in C++
  3. Min_element() and max_element() with a custom class
  4. Getting both min and max values at the same time in C++

Finding the minimum and maximum values is one of the first topics for software developers.

In C++, we can call the functions min_element() and max_element() to find the elements having respectively the lowest or the highest value in a standard container. These functions belong to the standard std::algorithm library.

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