Re: question for returning an array

From:
"BobR" <removeBadBobR@worldnet.att.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sun, 02 Sep 2007 19:29:23 GMT
Message-ID:
<naECi.64708$ax1.10783@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>
Din?ay Ak??ren <dincay@gmail.com> wrote in message...

Following function


Are you comeing from a 'C' background?

void mdelr(int *ar1, int a, int b, int d ){
   int i,j,tmp;
   int *temp;


Why are those there, and un-initialized?
You don't use 'i' or 'j' outside the loops, so, let's rewrite that to be
more C++ like...

int* mdelr( int *ar1, int a, int b, int d ){
     for( int i(0); i < a; ++i ){
          for( int j(0); j < b; ++j ){
               if( i >= d ) ar1[i*b+j] = ar1[(i+1)*b+j];
               if( i == b-1 ) ar1[i*b+j] = 0;
              } // for(j)
          } // for(i)
     int *temp( new int[(a-1)*b] );
     for( int i(0); i < b*a-b; ++i )
          temp[i] = ar1[i];
     using std::cout;
     cout << "\nlast version of array" << d << " " << ar1[0] << "\n";
     delete [] ar1;
     ar1 = temp;
     delete [] temp;

     for( int i(0); i < a-1; ++i){
          for( int j(0); j < b; ++j){
               cout << ar1[i*b +j] << " ";
              }
          cout << "\n";
          }
     return ar1;
     } // mdelr(int*,int,int,int)

and following main block


// > int main(void)
int main(){ // C++
     using std::cout;
// > int *ar1,*ar2;
// > int i,j,k;
// > int temp, sayi,ROW,COL;
// > int *pt;

Why are those there, and un-initialized?

// > ROW=COL=5;
Reserve all-caps for macros.

     size_t Row(5), Col(5);

// > ar1 = new int[ROW*COL];
     int *ar1( new int[ Row * Col ] );

   cout << "row number to be deleted";

     int sayi(0);

   cin >> sayi;


// > pt = new int[sayi];
     int *pt( new int[ sayi ] );

     int temp(0);
// > for(i=0; i<sayi; i++){
     for( int i(0); i < sayi; ++i){

         cout << "Enter col num" << i;
         cin >> temp;


How do you know input succeeded?

         temp--;
         pt[i] = temp-i;
         }


You fix the rest...

// in for(k)
// > mdelr(ar1,ROW-k,COL,pt[k]);

         ar1 = mdelr( ar1, Row-k, Col, pt[k] );

// > delete ar1;
// > delete pt;
     delete [] ar1;
     delete [] pt;

   system("pause");
   return 0;
   } // main()

My question is why the first element of the array becomes stupid
despite all of my effords? I believe returning to main changes the
first element but I cannot prevent this.


What Erik and Alf said.

To get you going, I'll give you a short example using std::vector.
// ------------
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>

void FillVector( std::vector< int > &vec){ // non-const here
     vec.push_back( 1 );
     vec.push_back( 2 );
     vec.push_back( 3 );
     // vec.at(0) = 42; // change 1 to 42 in first element.
     return;
     } // FillVector(vector<int>&)

void PrintVector( std::vector< int > const &vec, // const here
               std::ostream &out ){
     for( std::size_t i(0); i < vec.size(); ++i ){
          out<<vec.at(i)<<std::endl;
          // or: out<<vec[ i ]<<std::endl;
          }
     // I won't show the std::copy method here.
     // Look it up, or review this NG for it.
     return;
     } // PrintVector(vector<int>const&,ostream&)

int main(){
     std::vector< int > MyVec;
     FillVector( MyVec );
     PrintVector( MyVec, std::cout );
     return 0;
     } // main()
// ------------

You can initialize the vector:

     // std::vector< int > MyVec( 25 );
     std::vector< int > MyVec( 25, 7 );

.....will give you a vector with 25 elements, all set to '7'.
Read-up on std::vector for much more.

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