The Standard Library has an extensive collection of generic functions in the <algorithm> header file. By generic we mean that they access data via iterators without knowing what the iterators refer to and so it means that you can write generic code to work for any appropriate container. However, if you know the container type and that container has a member method to perform the same action, you should use the member.
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