Thread: initialize 2 dimensional char array

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    initialize 2 dimensional char array

    Can anyone tell what's wrong here? I can't get the value sent to the function

    code:

    board::board()
    {
    char pine[4][4] = { 'O' }; //assign O to all elements

    pine[0][4] = 'P'; //single element initialization

    ...}

    Thanks.

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    watch out!

    char pine[4][4];

    pine[0][4] <- bad mistake

    an array goes from 0 to n-1
    Hope you don't mind my bad english, I'm Austrian!

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    sorry, that 's a typo. Except for that, anything I should know about pass the array? I tried with one dimensional array and it worked. I don't know when it comes to 2d, things screwed up.

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    mhm, yeah ok!

    2dim arrays are very unconfortable

    you should use std::vector<std::vector<char> >

    but the problem with 2dim arrays is that you can't pass them as a 2dim array

    void foo(char x[5][5]);
    char x[5][5];
    foo(x);

    that works - but you have to specify the size of the array and that makes your program too static!

    so you have to use a pointer:
    void foo(char*);
    char x[5][5];
    foo(&x[0][0]);

    but if you want to change x[2][3] in foo you have to write:
    arr[(2*y)+3]=bla;
    y has to be the y-dimension of your array (in our version 5)

    that is ugly and unsave - so you better use vector ;-) declared in <vector>
    Hope you don't mind my bad english, I'm Austrian!

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