containers of arrays?

[Stephen J. Fromm]

I take it I cannot form a container of an array type? For example,
stack<string[3]> parentStack;

TIA,

sjfromm

 

[Victor Bazarov]

I take it I cannot form a container of an array type? For example,
stack<string[3]> parentStack;

Yes.

 

[John Dibling]

I take it I cannot form a container of an array type? For example,
stack<string[3]> parentStack;

TIA,

sjfromm

You can have containers of arrays, but the declaration youv'e posted
above is faulty. Youv'e declared a stack where each element is 3
strings. This is fine in principle, but probaly what you should do is
declare a struct that defines the stack elements, then declare the
stack as a stack of those things, like this:

struct STRINGS
{
string m_Strings[3];
}; // STRINGS

int main()
{
std::stack<STRINGS> stk;
return 0;
}

</dib>
John Dibling
Witty banter omitted for your protection

 

[Rolf Magnus]

I take it I cannot form a container of an array type? For example,
stack<string[3]> parentStack;

TIA,

sjfromm

You can have containers of arrays,

No, you can't.

but the declaration youv'e posted
above is faulty. Youv'e declared a stack where each element is 3
strings. This is fine in principle,

No, it's not. Arrays are not assignable and as such, they cannot be used
as elements of standard containers. The above code should not be
accepted by your C++ compiler.

but probaly what you should do is
declare a struct that defines the stack elements, then declare the
stack as a stack of those things, like this:

struct STRINGS
{
string m_Strings[3];
}; // STRINGS

int main()
{
std::stack<STRINGS> stk;
return 0;
}

That would work.

 

[Stephen J. Fromm]

I take it I cannot form a container of an array type? For example,
stack<string[3]> parentStack;

Yes.

Victor,

Yes, I can form, or yes, I cannot form?

 

[Stephen J. Fromm]

On 29 Jul 2003 10:18:57 -0700, (e-mail address removed) (Stephen J.
Fromm) wrote:

Thanks for your reply.

I take it I cannot form a container of an array type? For example,
stack<string[3]> parentStack;

TIA,

sjfromm

You can have containers of arrays, but the declaration youv'e posted
above is faulty. Youv'e declared a stack where each element is 3
strings. This is fine in principle, but probaly what you should do is
declare a struct that defines the stack elements, then declare the
stack as a stack of those things, like this:

Right, that's what I ended up doing.

What I'm curious about is whether I can *directly* define a stack<...>
of an array or not. My compiler decidedly didn't like it.

struct STRINGS
{
string m_Strings[3];
}; // STRINGS

int main()
{
std::stack<STRINGS> stk;
return 0;
}

</dib>
John Dibling
Witty banter omitted for your protection

 

[Victor Bazarov]

"Victor Bazarov" <[email protected]> wrote in message

I take it I cannot form a container of an array type? For example,
stack<string[3]> parentStack;

Yes.

Victor,

Yes, I can form, or yes, I cannot form?

Cannot. Arrays do not satisfy the requirements for contained
items: CopyContstructible and Assignable.

Victor

 

[Rolf Magnus]

What I'm curious about is whether I can *directly* define a stack<...>
of an array or not.

Not.