Can you have a vector of chars?
My program has a vector of albums(a class). Class Album can set and get the name of the album and artist.
I want to have two vectors of chars, one is AlbumNameVector(ANV) and the other is Artist Name Vector(ArtV).
is the following legal?
Code:
while(EnteringData) {
AV.push_back(new Album);//adds a new Album to the AlbumVector
ANV.push_back(new char[50]); //adds a new 50 byte character array to the AlbumNameVector
ArtV.push_back(new char[50]); //adds a new 50 byte character array to the ArtistVector
}
MY PROGRAM IS NOT WOKRING, FOR SOME REASON IT SKIPS OVER ALBUM NUMBER 0, that is my biggest problem.
I have decided to include what i have for the full source in case you wanted to look
[code]
#include <iostream>
#include <windows.h>
#include <conio.h>
#include <vector>
#include <string.h>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;
class Album {
public:
void SetAlbumName(char *name) {strncpy(AlbumName, name, 50);}
void SetArtistName(char *name) {strncpy(ArtistName, name, 50);}
void SetSongName(char *name) {strncpy(SongName, name, 50);}
char* GetAlbumName() {return AlbumName;}
char* GetArtistName() {return ArtistName;}
char* GetSongList() {return SongName;}
protected:
char AlbumName[50];
char ArtistName[50];
char SongName[50];
};
int main() {
int Answer;
int Index = 0;
bool EnteringData;
typedef vector<Album*> AlbumVector;
typedef vector<char*> AlbumNameVector;
typedef vector<char*> ArtistVector;
typedef vector<char*> SongListVector;
AlbumVector AV;
AlbumNameVector ANV;
ArtistVector ArtV;
SongListVector SLV;
cout << "Would you like the enter an album to the database? " << endl; //asks user if he/she would like to enter information
cout << "1) Yes " << endl << "2) No " << endl;
cin >> Answer;
if(Answer == 1)
EnteringData = true;
else
EnteringData = false;
while(EnteringData) {
AV.push_back(new Album); //adds a new Album to the AlbumVector
ANV.push_back(new char[50]); //adds a new 50 byte character array to the AlbumNameVector
ArtV.push_back(new char[50]); //adds a new 50 byte character array to the ArtistVector
SLV.push_back(new char[50]); //adds a new 50 byte character array to the SongListVector
cout << "Enter the name of album #" << Index<< endl; //asks user the name of the album
cin.getline(ANV[Index],50); //Inputs the Album name
AV[Index]->SetAlbumName(ANV[Index]); //Sets the name of the Album[Index] (uses class methods)
Index++;
}
cout << "End of program" << endl;
getch();
system("CLS");
return 0;
}
//1) store album name, artist name, and list of songs in a database
//create class album, derive artist name from class album
//derive song list from class album
//album name, artist name, song list
//2) be able to read the album name, artist name, and list of songs from database
//3) be able to search the database based on user input
