Re: structures and pointers
"www.fruitfruit.com" <no_email@fruitfruit.com> wrote in message
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nemesia31@gmail.com wrote:
i have a structure
typedef struct tm
{
int date;
int hour;
int minutes;
} time;
i want to use this structure dynamically, ie, i want it to grow.
like it would be
time *sept= new time;
sept->date=15;
.....
........
......
but i want something like
for(int i=0;i<MAX;i++)
{
sept[i]->date=i+5;
}
i want to grow the structure dynamically, ie, the valur of MAX is
provided at runtime.
how can i do tht????
Use STL container
#include <deque>
std::deque<*time> time_collection;
for(int i=0; i< MAX; i++)
{
time_collection.push_back( new time );
time_collection[i]->date = i+5;
}
Your collection isn't buying you anything here since you will still need to
manually delete the memory allocated. You could achieve the same effect
with:
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
struct Time
{
int date;
int hour;
int minutes;
};
int main()
{
int MAX;
cin >> MAX;
Time *sept= new Time[MAX];
for(int i=0;i<MAX;i++)
{
sept[i].date=i+5;
}
// later
delete [] sept;
return 0;
}
Alternatively, you could use a container to avoid manual memory allocation.
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
using namespace std;
struct Time
{
int date;
int hour;
int minutes;
};
int main()
{
int MAX;
cin >> MAX;
vector<Time> sept(MAX, Time());
for(int i=0;i<MAX;i++)
{
sept[i].date=i+5;
}
// no delete required
return 0;
}
If the size of MAX may change during the running of the program, then the
member functions resize() or, as you indicated, push_back() may be used.
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