The following code example is taken from the book
The C++ Standard Library - A Tutorial and Reference
by Nicolai M. Josuttis, Addison-Wesley, 1999
© Copyright Nicolai M. Josuttis 1999
#include <iostream>
#include <list>
#include <algorithm>
#include <iterator>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
list<int> coll;
// insert elements from 6 to 1 and 1 to 6
for (int i=1; i<=6; ++i) {
coll.push_front(i);
coll.push_back(i);
}
// print all elements of the collection
copy (coll.begin(), coll.end(),
ostream_iterator<int>(cout," "));
cout << endl;
// remove all elements with value 3
// - retain new end
list<int>::iterator end = remove (coll.begin(), coll.end(),
3);
// print resulting elements of the collection
copy (coll.begin(), end,
ostream_iterator<int>(cout," "));
cout << endl;
// print number of resulting elements
cout << "number of removed elements: "
<< distance(end,coll.end()) << endl;
// remove ``removed'' elements
coll.erase (end, coll.end());
// print all elements of the modified collection
copy (coll.begin(), coll.end(),
ostream_iterator<int>(cout," "));
cout << endl;
}