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Erase a range of elements from a deque (nil traits)&period;

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;bslalg&lowbar;dequeprimitives&period;h&gt;`

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template&lt;class ALLOCATOR&gt;
static
xref:BloombergLP/bslalg/DequePrimitives-01/Iterator.adoc[DequePrimitives&lt;VALUE&lowbar;TYPE, BLOCK&lowbar;LENGTH&gt;::Iterator]
erase(
    xref:BloombergLP/bslalg/DequePrimitives-01/Iterator.adoc[Iterator]* toBegin,
    xref:BloombergLP/bslalg/DequePrimitives-01/Iterator.adoc[Iterator]* toEnd,
    xref:BloombergLP/bslalg/DequePrimitives-01/Iterator.adoc[Iterator] fromBegin,
    xref:BloombergLP/bslalg/DequePrimitives-01/Iterator.adoc[Iterator] first,
    xref:BloombergLP/bslalg/DequePrimitives-01/Iterator.adoc[Iterator] last,
    xref:BloombergLP/bslalg/DequePrimitives-01/Iterator.adoc[Iterator] fromEnd,
    ALLOCATOR allocator,
    xref:bsl/integral_constant-02.adoc[bsl::integral&lowbar;constant&lt;int, BSLALG&lowbar;DEQUEPRIMITIVES&lowbar;NIL&lowbar;TRAITS&gt;] traits);
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== Description

Call the destructor on each of the elements of a deque of parameterized `VALUE&lowbar;TYPE` in the specified range `&lsqb;first &period;&period; last)&rsqb;`&period; Shift the elements from the smaller of the specified range `&lsqb;fromBegin &period;&period; first)&rsqb;` and `&lsqb;last &period;&period; fromEnd)&rsqb;` to fill up the empty spaces after the erasure&period; Load in the specified `toBegin` and `toEnd` the new boundaries of the deque after erasure and return an iterator pointing to the element immediately following the removed elements&period; The behavior is undefined unless `fromBegin &lt;&equals; first &lt;&equals; last &lt;&equals; fromEnd`&period; Note that the last argument is for removing overload ambiguities and is not used&period;

== Return Value

iterator to the element immediately following the removed elements

== Parameters

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|===
| Name| Description
| *toBegin*
| loads the new beginning iterator of the deque
| *toEnd*
| loads the new end iterator of the deque
| *fromBegin*
| current beginning of the deque
| *first*
| beginning of the range to erase
| *last*
| end of the range to erase (one past the last)
| *fromEnd*
| current end of the deque
| *allocator*
| allocator used to destroy elements
| *traits*
| unused trait tag for overload resolution
|===


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