Find_first_of is similar to find, in that it performs linear seach through a range of Input Iterators. The difference is that while find searches for one particular value, find_first_of searches for any of several values. Specifically, find_first_of searches for the first occurrance in the range [first1, last1) of any of the elements in [first2, last2). (Note that this behavior is reminiscent of the function strpbrk from the standard C library.)

The two versions of find_first_of differ in how they compare elements for equality. The first uses operator==, and the second uses and arbitrary user-supplied function object comp. The first version returns the first iterator i in [first1, last1) such that, for some iterator j in [first2, last2), *i == *j. The second returns the first iterator i in [first1, last1) such that, for some iterator j in [first2, last2), comp(*i, *j) is true. As usual, both versions return last1 if no such iterator i exists.