Re: Data structure design question

From:
"Jim Langston" <tazmaster@rocketmail.com>
Newsgroups:
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Date:
Wed, 8 Apr 2009 02:33:28 CST
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"syuga" <syuga2012@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Hi Folks,

I have a set of values (e.g integers from i = 1 to 255) and each value
( i ), can be associated with another set of values ( integers from j
= 1 to 50). A simple 2 dimensional array would map the set of values.
i.e for each i, what are the valid j can be found.

The problem is that most of the valid values of j for a given i are
few and it takes a lot of memory.

I would like to know of a better solution to this problem. Appreciate
your help.

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 .......
=============
1 | 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
2 | 1 0 0 1 1 0 0
3 |
4 |


Since the given values of J for each I is limited, just make the values a
vector. So you would have 255 vectors of ints. This can also be stored in
a vector of vectors but the initialization gets a litte hazy, so you might
want to wrap the given J's.

class JValues
{
private:
   std::vector<i> Values;
public:
   JValues() { };
   JValues( std::vector<i>& Data ) {
      Values = Data;
   }
   bool IsValid( int Number ) {
      // find value here and return true or false
   }
};

etc... whatever logic you want. If you need the exact code I could do it,
but you should try I think
Then either a pure array:
JValues[255] MyData;
or a vector of dta.
std::vector<JValues> MyData;
then you'll need to send the data to JValues what are the valid entries.

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