Thread: creating new objects in loop

I'm trying to figure out how to create new objects based on user input. Here is a sample output to help my description:

Enter value for object: 4 // this would set a value for object1 as 4
Do you want to enter another? yes
Enter value for object: 3 // this would set a value for object2 as 3
repeat...

Here is what I have without any logic for creating the new object in the loop (this program just overwrites the "object" object in each loop instead of making object1, object2, object3 etc...:

Thanks for your time
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Code:

#include <iostream> 
using namespace std; 

class CRecord
{
public:
	CRecord();		//default constructor
	int getnum();	//get function
	int num;
};

CRecord::CRecord() //default constructor
{	
	num=0;
}

int CRecord::getnum() // a get utility function
{
	return num;
}



int main()
{
	int counter =1;
	
	while ( counter <= 5 ) {
	
		CRecord object;
	
		cout << "enter value for object: " ;
		cin >> object.num;
		cout << endl << object.getnum() << endl;
		counter++;	
	}

	return 0;

}

If you want different objects, you must keep track of the different objects. In your example, you only create one object at a time. Technically speaking, you create 5 objects, but each one goes away before you create the next one.

One solution is a vector or array of CRecord objects. In your code example you would make it a size of 5 and create it before your loop. Then, use the counter variable to index the array and set the values appropriately. Be careful, though, because you start counter at 1 and arrays are indexed from 0 to size-1.

Thanks guys, - I think I see the light. I'll try the array of objects and reply again if I have more questions.

I kept everything public because I was trying to make keep my example code simple.

Thanks so much for your time.