Question

I am trying to write a program that has a vector of char arrays and am have some problems.

char test [] = { 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e' };

vector<char[]> v;

v.push_back(test);

Sorry this has to be a char array because I need to be able to generate lists of chars as I am trying to get an output something like.

a a
a b
a c
a d
a e
b a
b c

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks

Answer 1

You cannot store arrays in vectors (or in any other standard library container). The things that standard library containers store must be copyable and assignable, and arrays are neither of these.

If you really need to put an array in a vector (and you probably don’t – using a vector of vectors or a vector of strings is more likely what you need), then you can wrap the array in a struct:

struct S {
  char a[10];
};

and then create a vector of structs:

vector <S> v;
S s;
s.a[0] = 'x';
v.push_back( s );