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Container&hyphen;based version of the &lt;algorithm&gt; `std&colon;&colon;copy&lowbar;backward()` function to copy a container&apos;s elements in reverse order into an iterator&period;

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;absl&sol;algorithm&sol;container&period;h&gt;`

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----
template&lt;
    typename C,
    typename BidirectionalIterator&gt;
constexpr
BidirectionalIterator
c&lowbar;copy&lowbar;backward(
    C const& src,
    BidirectionalIterator dest);
----

== Return Value

An iterator to the beginning of the copied range in the destination&period;

== Parameters

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|===
| Name| Description
| *src*
| The container whose elements to copy&period;
| *dest*
| An iterator past the end of the destination range&period;
|===


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