Convert std::tuple to std::array C++11

Question

If I have std::tuple (where the type is homogeneous), is there a stock function or constructor to convert to std::array

Answer 1

You can do it non-recursively:

#include <array>
#include <tuple>
#include <redi/index_tuple.h>  // see below

template<typename T, typename... U>
  using Array = std::array<T, 1+sizeof...(U)>;

template<typename T, typename... U, unsigned... I>
  inline Array<T, U...>
  tuple_to_array2(const std::tuple<T, U...>& t, redi::index_tuple<I...>)
  {
    return Array<T, U...>{ std::get<I>(t)... };
  }

template<typename T, typename... U>
  inline Array<T, U...>
  tuple_to_array(const std::tuple<T, U...>& t)
  {
    using IndexTuple = typename redi::make_index_tuple<1+sizeof...(U)>::type;
    return tuple_to_array2(t, IndexTuple());
  }

See https://gitlab.com/redistd/redistd/blob/master/include/redi/index_tuple.h for my implementation of index_tuple, something like that is useful for working with tuples and similar variadic templates. A similar utility was standardised as std::index_sequence in C++14 (see index_seq.h for a standalone C++11 implementation).