[#BloombergLP-bslstl-operator_inc-008] = xref:BloombergLP.adoc[BloombergLP]::xref:BloombergLP/bslstl.adoc[bslstl]::operator++ :relfileprefix: ../../ :mrdocs: Increment the specified `iter` to the next element. Return the previous value of `iter`. The behavior is undefined if, on entry, `iter` has the past‐the‐end value for an iterator of the underlying sequence. == Synopsis Declared in `<bslstl_forwarditerator.h>` [source,cpp,subs="verbatim,replacements,macros,-callouts"] ---- template< class T, class ITER_IMP, class TAG_TYPE> xref:BloombergLP/bslstl/ForwardIterator.adoc[bslstl::ForwardIterator<T, ITER_IMP, TAG_TYPE>] operator++( xref:BloombergLP/bslstl/ForwardIterator.adoc[ForwardIterator<T, ITER_IMP, TAG_TYPE>]& iter, int); ---- [.small]#Created with https://www.mrdocs.com[MrDocs]#