How to rotate every Nth element in a vector in c++

Question

I'm trying to rotate every nth element in a vector. I know there is a rotate function in c++ but how can i rotate every nth element?

For example:

([71 65 74 88 63 100 45 35 67 11])-->[65 74 88 71 100 45 35 63 11 67] 

For the above example, if n=4 then rotation should happen at every 4th element.

1st-->([71 65 74 88])-->([65 74 88 71])

2nd-->([63 100 45 35])-->([100 45 35 63])

3rd-->([67 11])-->([11 67])

Answer 1

Just create subranges with specified maximum length from the initial vector using iterators and rotate each one of them.

#include <vector>
#include <iostream>
#include <algorithm>
using namespace std;

template <class ForwardIterator>
void myrotate_nth (ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last,
                   typename std::iterator_traits<ForwardIterator>::difference_type n)
{
    while (last - first > n) {
        ForwardIterator tmp = first + n;
        rotate(first, first + 1, tmp);
        first = tmp;
    }
    rotate(first, first + 1, last);
}

int main()
{
    std::vector<int> v = { 71, 65, 74, 88, 63, 100, 45, 35, 67, 11 };
    myrotate_nth(v.begin(), v.end(), 4);
    for_each(v.begin(), v.end(), [](int c) { cout << c << "\t"; });
    cout << endl;
    return 0;
}

Will output:

65      74      88      71      100     45      35      63      11      67