Re: vector pointers
jagguy <johntownsley@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
I am a little confused with the basic concept of vector of pointers.
The vector is easy enough.
Say you want a vector of pointers to int. The integers are not created
outside the vector so all we get is this and it doesn't work
vector<int*> ones;
ones->push_back(7);
Instead, you need to do:
ones.push_back(new int(7));
but now that you are working with pointers, you must also handle
deleting the things in the vector:
for (vector<int*>::size_type i = 0; i != ones.size(); ++i) {
delete ones[i];
}
cout << ones[0] << endl; //just print 1 out
If you want to print them you need:
cout << *ones[0] << endl;
this fails from 2nd line
q)do vectors automaticall dynamically create the variables?
In a sense, yes. However, in a vector<int*>, it will dynamically
create/destroy the pointers for you, but not what the pointers are
pointing to. This is why you must manually manage the memory for the
contents of the vector, but not the vector itself.
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