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Dynamic Allocation of Multi-Dimensional Arrays - C/C++ |
chess_rock
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Hey there everyone.
I've been studying a bit of C and C++ here, especially the part of object oriented programming, and i just banged my head in a big wall. I never really needed to dynamically allocate memory for multi dimensional arrays. It would be easy if i was dealing with simple vectors with my beautiful function called malloc and pointers. See the example below:
//For a linear 1000 values' vector
int *a;
int i=1000;
a=(int *)malloc(i*sizeof(int))
In c++ i'd use the new keyword.
I'd be really grateful if anyone could explain me how to dynamically allocate values in a 2 dimensional array both in C and C++. Yet C is more important right now. I've been looking it up in google but i couldn't understand it really well. They mention creating arrays in structs and calling it with pointers, but i'd like to see some sort of code to understand it. |
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C is not really object oriented. I assume you could use some creative programming to make it seem so but that might be more complicated than what your looking for. Hope this helps.
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fashizzlepop wrote:
C is not really object oriented. I assume you could use some creative programming to make it seem so but that might be more complicated than what your looking for. Hope this helps.
Well, yeah, i expressed myself badly. The thing is, i'm studying more deeply c++ now because i don't like c, but it is important for me to learn that in c as well as i'll be seeing this thing in university soon. We unfortunately study c and not c++  |
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I believe this is how you create a multidimensional array in C/C++, though it's been a while so I could be wrong.
int **a;
int i=10;
int j=1000;
//make an array with 10 sets of 1000 ints
a=(int *)malloc(i*sizeof(int*));
for(int x=0; x<i; x++)
{
a[x] = (int *)malloc(j*sizeof(int));
}
Not entirely sure if that was what you were looking for.
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ynori7 wrote:
I believe this is how you create a multidimensional array in C/C++, though it's been a while so I could be wrong.
int **a;
int i=10;
int j=1000;
//make an array with 10 sets of 1000 ints
a=(int *)malloc(i*sizeof(int*));
for(int x=0; x<i; x++)
{
a[x] = (int *)malloc(j*sizeof(int));
}
Not entirely sure if that was what you were looking for.
Thanks a lot ynori :) That's exactly what i was looking for. I didn't realize i needed to add a double pointer (int **a). That makes it much clearer :) I'll program something soon to test this.
btw, sorry for taking too long to reply. Was away all day long. And again, thanks a lot! |
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