Newbbie lookin' for help on two-dimensional arrays

[moenia]

im learning C++ by myself. (my brother and I)
yesterday a friend of us told us that we can make a multiple array..
and he gave us an example with a times table ( 2x2=4)
we tried to use it but it didn't work
we used the
int num[ ] [ ];

of couse if we hard code it will work but we cannot do it, by prompting the user..
can you help us solving it?
thank you in advance for your help.

Thank you for all your feed back..
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but how can i make it interactive.. propting the user..
like..
cout<<"Please enter the first number"<<endl;
cin>>num1;
cout<<"Please enter the second number"<<endl;
cin>>num2;
and then display
cout<<num1<<*<<num2<<"="result<<endl; //displaying both numbers and then the result
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[SilentStrike]

You need to supply the dimensions within brackets.

#include <iostream>

const int NUM_ROWS = 5; // dimensions need to be constants at compile time
const int NUM_COLS = 5;

int main() {
	int timesTable[NUM_ROWS][NUM_COLS];  // create the matrix with sizes

	for (int i = 0; i < NUM_ROWS; i++) {
		for (int j = 0; j < NUM_COLS; j++) {
			timesTable[i][j] = (i + 1) * (j + 1);  // fill the table
		}
	}

	for (int r = 0; r < NUM_ROWS; r++) {
  		for (int c = 0; c <NUM_COLS; c++) {
			std::cout << timesTable[r][c] << "\t"; // display the table
		}
		std::cout << std::endl;
	}

	return 0;
}

The catch is that the size of the matrix needs to be known at compile time, or else you need to use dynamic memory... but that stuff is a little rough for beginners.

[skipper]

Aside from the excellent help on the code, SilentStrike, may I add that MSVC++ 6 wouldn't compile the code as presented. Borland C++Builder5 did.

Borland:

As presented by SilentStrike

MSVC++:

#include <iostream.h> // Add the .h

const int NUM_ROWS = 5; // dimensions need to be constants at compile time
const int NUM_COLS = 5;

int main() {
	int timesTable[NUM_ROWS][NUM_COLS];  // create the matrix with sizes

	for (int i = 0; i < NUM_ROWS; i++) {
		for (int j = 0; j < NUM_COLS; j++) {
			timesTable[i][j] = (i + 1) * (j + 1);  // fill the table
		}
	}

	for (int r = 0; r < NUM_ROWS; r++) {
  		for (int c = 0; c <NUM_COLS; c++) {
			//std::cout << timesTable[r][c] << "\t"; // display the table
			cout << timesTable[r][c] << "\t"; // display the table
		}
		//std::cout << std::endl;
		cout << endl;

	}        
	return 0;
}

Lots of opinions and they're all like...hmmmm.

Thanks, again.

[SilentStrike]

I didn't test it with MSVC, but I am sure it supports the std namespace. iostream.h isn't standard C++, anymore.

http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/tut5-2.html

One of the best examples that we can find about namespaces is the standard C++ library itself. According to ANSI C++ standard, the definition all the classes, objects and functions of the standard C++ library are defined within namespace std.

[skipper]

Quite right, and the error was mine.

In transferring the code from Borland, which requires #include <conio> for 'getch();', to MSVC, my fat fingers stopped paying attention to my brain.

Or, was it the other way around...?