Re: using a member const int to initialize a char array

From:
abubakarm@gmail.com
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sun, 17 Aug 2008 04:03:58 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<8285d8a3-68b2-42ad-8ac4-0adcd90a8a9e@y38g2000hsy.googlegroups.com>
On Aug 14, 8:33 pm, Victor Bazarov <v.Abaza...@comAcast.net> wrote:

Leandro Melo wrote:

On 14 ago, 11:45, abubak...@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

If i have the following struct:

struct t
{
  const int x;// = 0;
  char name [ x ];

};

its gives an error saying that x is undefined. So I want to initialize
x and use it to initalize other members. How do I do this? Or should I
use some other way?

Thanks,

..ab


Hi.

You can use the following (don't use 0 however):

struct A
{
  static const int x = 10;
  char name [ x ];

};


If the value of 'x' is dynamic (determined only in run-time), then you
can't use this. You need to either use a dynamic array or a std::vecto=

r

for your 'name':

     struct A
     {
         const int x;
         std::vector<char> name;
         A(int x) : x(x), name(x) {}
     };

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Thank you guys !

..ab

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