thrust::unique_by_key_copy

Defined in thrust/unique.h

template<typename DerivedPolicy, typename InputIterator1, typename InputIterator2, typename OutputIterator1, typename OutputIterator2, typename BinaryPredicate> thrust::pair<OutputIterator1, OutputIterator2> thrust::unique_by_key_copy(const thrust::detail::execution_policy_base<DerivedPolicy> &exec, InputIterator1 keys_first, InputIterator1 keys_last, InputIterator2 values_first, OutputIterator1 keys_result, OutputIterator2 values_result, BinaryPredicate binary_pred)

unique_by_key_copy is a generalization of unique_copy to key-value pairs. For each group of consecutive keys in the range [keys_first, keys_last) that are equal, unique_by_key_copy copies the first element of the group to a range beginning with keys_result and the corresponding values from the range [values_first, values_first + (keys_last - keys_first)) are copied to a range beginning with values_result.

This version of unique_by_key_copy uses the function object binary_pred to test for equality and project1st to reduce values with equal keys.

The algorithm’s execution is parallelized as determined by exec.

The following code snippet demonstrates how to use unique_by_key_copy to compact a sequence of key/value pairs and with equal keys using the thrust::host execution policy for parallelization:

#include <thrust/unique.h>
#include <thrust/execution_policy.h>
...
const int N = 7;
int A[N] = {1, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 1}; // input keys
int B[N] = {9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3}; // input values
int C[N];                         // output keys
int D[N];                         // output values

thrust::pair<int*,int*> new_end;
thrust::equal_to<int> binary_pred;
new_end = thrust::unique_by_key_copy(thrust::host, A, A + N, B, C, D, binary_pred);

// The first four keys in C are now {1, 3, 2, 1} and new_end.first - C is 4.
// The first four values in D are now {9, 8, 5, 3} and new_end.second - D is 4.