Re: Need help in my array

From:
 James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:07:41 -0000
Message-ID:
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On Jun 6, 8:07 am, "sumedh....." <sumedhsak...@gmail.com> wrote:

Array is nothing but a pointer..


Nonsense. Arrays and pointers are two completely different
things.

that means: int p[4]; can be
represented as *(p+i)


I think you mean that the expression p[i] is the same as *(p+i).
This is a misfeature of C, and doesn't hold if you use C++ style
arrays (i.e. std::vector). And it only holds in expressions; it
has nothing to do with the type of any objects.

so another way of declaring it is
int *p=new int[n]; //and n doesnot need to be a constant..


There is never any reason to use array new in C++. The correct
way to declare an array is:
    std::vector< int > array( n ) ;
About the only exception is when you need static initialization,
to avoid order of initialization issues.

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