Re: Converting new [] to vectors

From:
"Daniel T." <daniel_t@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:36:43 CST
Message-ID:
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On Feb 26, 5:31 pm, Richard Howard <rhphotography....@googlemail.com>
wrote:

I am currently working on some legacy software, and I tend to replace
calls to new/delete with auto_ptrs and new[]/delete[] with vectors ...
but how do I implement the following whist maintaining RAII, is there
a std method of doing this?

    float (* coords)[3] = NULL;
...
    long numPoints = sourceOfPoints->size();
    coords = new float[numPoints][3]; // allocate the array of arrays
    sourceOfPoints->GetPointAll(coords); // set the appropriate array
values on the array of arrays
...
    delete [] coords;

I thought maybe

    vector<float[3]>

but it complains at me


I would be inclined to do something like this:

struct Point3D
{
     float value[3];
     float operator[](int i) const { return value[i]; }
     float& operator[](int i) { return value[i]; }
};

vector<Point3D> coords;
coords.resize(sourceOfPoints->size());
sourceOfPoints->GetPointAll(coords);

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