Question

When dealing with multidimensional arrays, is it possible to assign two different variable types to the array…

For example you have the array int example[i][j] is it possible for i and j to be two completely different variable types such as int and string?

Answer 1

Sounds like you’re looking for:

std::vector<std::map<std::string, int> > myData1;

or perhaps:

std::map<int, std::map<std::string, int> > myData2;

The first would require you to resize the vector to an appropriate size before using the indexing operators:

myData1.resize(100);
myData1[25]["hello"] = 7;

…while the second would allow you to assign to any element directly (and sparsely):

myData2[25]["hello"] = 7;