Question

I would like to have an array int candidates[9][] where the first dimension is known (9) and the second, depends on the execution.

I found that a method to allocate the array was the following:

int *candidates[9]; /* first allocation at declaration */
for(int i=0;i<9;i++) candidates[i] = new int[6]; /* allocation at execution */

but when I use it like that, and I try to access to candidates[i][j], it doesn’t work. I initialize candidate[i] with a function fun() that return and int[] of the right size, but the content of candidate[i][j] is wrong.

candidates[0] = fun();

I don’t understand where I am wrong… Thank you for your help 🙂

Answer 1

Why dont you try vector template class from STL…code is more neater and comprehensive…

#include <iostream>
#include <vector>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    vector<int> arrayOfVecs[9];

    //use each array to put as many elements you want, each one different
    arrayOfVecs[0].push_back(1);
    arrayOfVecs[1].push_back(100);
    .
    .
    arrayOfVecs[1].push_back(22);
    arrayOfVecs[0].pop_back();
    arrayOfVecs[8].push_back(45);

    cout<<arrayOfVecs[1][0]<<endl;//prints 100

    return 0;
}

WITH ARRAY OF POINTERS

int main()
{
    int* arrayOfPtrs[9];

    for(int index = 0;index<9;index++)
    {
        int sizeOfArray = //determine the size of each array
        arrayOfPtrs[index] = new int[sizeOfArray];

        //initialize all to zero if you want or you can skip this loop
        for(int k=0;k<sizeOfArray;k++)
            arrayOfPtrs[index][k] = 0;

    }

    for(int index = 0;index<9;index++)
    {
        for(int k=0;k<6;k++)
            cout<<arrayOfPtrs[index][k]<<endl;
    }

    return 0;

}