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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="./iterator-metafunctions.html#id383" name="distance">distance</a></h1>
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template&lt;
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    , typename Last
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struct <a href="./distance.html" class="identifier">distance</a>
{
    typedef <em>unspecified</em> type;
};
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<h3><a class="subsection-title" href="#description" name="description">Description</a></h3>
<p>Returns the distance between <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">First</span></tt> and <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">Last</span></tt> iterators, that is, an 
<a class="reference" href="./integral-constant.html">Integral Constant</a> <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">n</span></tt> such that <tt class="literal"><span class="pre"><a href="./advance.html" class="identifier">advance</a>&lt;First,n&gt;::type</span></tt> is 
identical to <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">Last</span></tt>.</p>
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#include &lt;<a href="../../../../boost/mpl/distance.hpp" class="header">boost/mpl/distance.hpp</a>&gt;
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<tr><td><tt class="literal"><span class="pre">First</span></tt>,
<tt class="literal"><span class="pre">Last</span></tt></td>
<td><a class="reference" href="./forward-iterator.html">Forward Iterator</a></td>
<td>Iterators to compute a
distance between.</td>
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<h3><a class="subsection-title" href="#model-of" name="model-of">Model Of</a></h3>
<p><a class="reference" href="./tag-dispatched.html">Tag Dispatched Metafunction</a></p>
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<h3><a class="subsection-title" href="#expression-semantics" name="expression-semantics">Expression semantics</a></h3>
<p>For any <a class="reference" href="./forward-iterator.html">Forward Iterator</a>s <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">first</span></tt> and <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">last</span></tt>:</p>
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typedef <a href="./distance.html" class="identifier">distance</a>&lt;first,last&gt;::type n; 
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Precondition:</th><td class="field-body">[<tt class="literal"><span class="pre">first</span></tt>, <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">last</span></tt>) is a valid range.</td>
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typedef <a href="./iter-fold.html" class="identifier">iter_fold</a>&lt;
      <a href="./iterator-range.html" class="identifier">iterator_range</a>&lt;first,last&gt;
    , <a href="./long.html" class="identifier">long_</a>&lt;0&gt;
    , <a href="./next.html" class="identifier">next</a>&lt;_1&gt;
    &gt;::type n;
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<h3><a class="subsection-title" href="#complexity" name="complexity">Complexity</a></h3>
<p>Amortized constant time if <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">first</span></tt> and <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">last</span></tt> are <a class="reference" href="./random-access-iterator.html">Random Access Iterator</a>s,
otherwise linear time.</p>
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typedef <a href="./range-c.html" class="identifier">range_c</a>&lt;int,0,10&gt;::type range;
typedef <a href="./begin.html" class="identifier">begin</a>&lt;range&gt;::type first;
typedef <a href="./end.html" class="identifier">end</a>&lt;range&gt;::type last;

<a href="./assert-relation.html" class="identifier">BOOST_MPL_ASSERT_RELATION</a>( (<a href="./distance.html" class="identifier">distance</a>&lt;first,last&gt;::value), ==, 10);
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<h3><a class="subsection-title" href="#see-also" name="see-also">See also</a></h3>
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