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Erase the half‐open range `[first, last)]` from this deque.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslstl_deque.h>`

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----
xref:bsl/deque-0c/iterator-02.adoc[deque<VALUE_TYPE, ALLOCATOR>::iterator]
erase(
    xref:bsl/deque-0c/const_iterator.adoc[const_iterator] first,
    xref:bsl/deque-0c/const_iterator.adoc[const_iterator] last);
----

== Description

Remove from this deque the sequence of elements starting at the specified `first` position and ending before the specified `last` position, and return an iterator providing modifiable access to the element immediately following the last removed element, or the position returned by the method `end` if the removed elements were last in the sequence. The behavior is undefined unless `first` is an iterator in the range `[cbegin() .. cend()]` (both endpoints included) and `last` is an iterator in the range `[first .. cend()]` (both endpoints included).

== Return Value

iterator to the element following the last erased element

== Parameters

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|===
| Name| Description
| *first*
| iterator to the first element to erase
| *last*
| iterator past the last element to erase
|===


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