Thread: Maps with ints[]

Hey every1,

I'm trying to have a Map with a string as key, and a 2 (or more) element array as data. Something like

Code:

 map <string, int[2]> myMap

I'm getting errors when i try to load data into the Map.

readin.cpp(23) : error C2106: '=' : left operand must be l-value

Code:

#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <map>

using std::map;
using namespace std;

int main(){
	
	map <string, int[2]> b;
	map <string, int[2]>::iterator iter;

	string rob = "ROB";

	int c[2];

	c[0] = 1;
	c[1] = 0;

	b[rob] = c;

	iter = b.begin();
         cout << iter->second << endl;    
}

i've tried alternatives to the line

Code:

b[rob] = c;

like

Code:

b[rob] = c[];

which gave me: error C2059: syntax error : ']' or

Code:

b[rob] = c[8];

which gave me: error C2440: '=' : cannot convert from 'int' to 'int [2]'

anyone have any ideas how i should load the data?

Cheers,

Rob.

Or since it is always 2 ints, use a pair (std::pair<int, int>).

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <map>

using namespace std;

int main(){
	
    map <string, std::pair<int,int> > b;
    map <string, std::pair<int,int> >::iterator iter;

    string rob = "ROB";

    b[rob] = std::make_pair(1, 0);

    iter = b.begin();
    cout << iter->second.first << iter->second.second << endl;    
}

By the way, is that cout statement just an example? It would just print the pointer address of the first element of the array. If you do want to print out the ints, you'll have to do a little more work.

vectors seem to do the trick, nice1, cheers every1.

Only thing is i'm gettin loads (like 100) warnings with vectors

Code:

c:\program files\microsoft visual studio\vc98\include\xtree(120) : warning C4786: 'std::_Tree<std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char> >,std::pair<std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char> > const ,
std::vector<int,std::allocator<int> > >,std::map<std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char> >,std::vector<int,std::allocator<int> >,std::less<std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char> > >,std::allocat
or<std::vector<int,std::allocator<int> > > >::_Kfn,std::less<std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char> > >,std::allocator<std::vector<int,std::allocator<int> > > >' : identifier was truncated to '255' characters in the debug
 information
        c:\program files\microsoft visual studio\vc98\include\map(46) : see reference to class template instantiation 'std::_Tree<std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char> >,std::pair<std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<
char>,std::allocator<char> > const ,std::vector<int,std::allocator<int> > >,std::map<std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char> >,std::vector<int,std::allocator<int> >,std::less<std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,s
td::allocator<char> > >,std::allocator<std::vector<int,std::allocator<int> > > >::_Kfn,std::less<std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char> > >,std::allocator<std::vector<int,std::allocator<int> > > >' being compiled
        c:\neo_soft\test\readin.cpp(38) : see reference to class template instantiation 'std::map<std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char> >,std::vector<int,std::allocator<int> >,std::less<std::basic_string<char,std::char_t
raits<char>,std::allocator<char> > >,std::allocator<std::vector<int,std::allocator<int> > > >' being compiled

it's the "identifier was truncated to 'number' characters in the debug information" error but it's for all these files in the MS include directory, map and xtree and all this. I've disabled warnings for my program but these other files that i've never come across (xtree) are throwin up loads of errors,

Any1 got any idea's?

Cheers,

Rob.

This is error is common when using standard containers. You can get rid of it using:

#pragma warning(disable: 4786)

Sometimes it works if you put it at the top of your code, but sometimes not. You can open the file with the error and put that line under the includes. Normally you don't want to edit those files, but this is usually fine. Put it on each file that has that warning (like xtree in this case).