[#BloombergLP-bslstl-AlgorithmUtil]
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Provide a namespace for implementing helper routines for algorithm implementations.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslstl_algorithm.h>`

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struct AlgorithmUtil;
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== Static Member Functions

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| Name| Description
| xref:BloombergLP/bslstl/AlgorithmUtil/containerEraseIf.adoc[`containerEraseIf`] 
| Erase all the elements in the specified container `container` that satisfy the specified predicate `predicate`. Return the number of elements erased.
| xref:BloombergLP/bslstl/AlgorithmUtil/copyN.adoc[`copyN`] 
| Copy the specified `count` elements from the specified `first` to the specified `result`. Return an iterator pointing past the last copied element in the output range.
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