Does std::copy handle overlapping ranges?

Question

When copying data from one range to another, you have to be careful if there\'s partial overlap between the source and destination ranges. If the beginning of the destinati

Answer 1

It seems the most straight forward way would be to create a temporary vector of the range you want to copy:

std::vector copiedRange( srcVecIterBegin, srcVecIterEnd);
std::copy( copiedRange.begin(), copiedRange.end(), srcVecIterCopyLocIter);

You can wrap this in a templated function that should be ably to do an overlapped using any container/iterator type.