Question

I am busy with a dynamic 2d array and I have declared it as follows:

string** MakeArray(int row,int col)
{
    string** array;
    array = new string* [col];

    for(int r = 0; r < row; r++)
    {
        array[r] = new string [col];
    }
    return array;
}

Now I can place string values in the array. How can I place Integer values in the first column and strings in second and integers in third, if my array is 4 by 99?

Answer 1

Don’t do that. Instead create a struct that will represent single record in a table, and contain a string and two integers. Then create one dimensional array of those structures.

struct record
{
    int a;
    std::string b;
    int c;
};

record* MakeArray(int row)
{
    return new record[row];
}

better yet, ditch arrays and use std::vector:

std::vector<record> array(99);