Cannot access pointers from an array

Hi all

I'm a fair beginner with C++, but try bear with me. I'm having problems accessing pointers that I've stored into an array. The idea in my program is to have an array, and as the program is executed create a set of objects (which store various data). Later than in the program, I can't access that data by looping through the array that contains the pointers to these objects.

The issue rises when I try to access the data. I'll try post the relevant part of my code here:

Code:

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// my class
class objVaraus
{
public:
  USHORT vrPaiva;
  USHORT vrPituus;
  string vrVaraaja;

  void tarkistus();
  int teevaraus();
};

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// this is in the main() program

objVaraus *pList[31]
objVaraus *pVaraus = new objVaraus;
objVaraus varaus;
cout << "\n" << *pVaraus << "\n";

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The idea is that the pointer in *pVaraus is stored into *pList[31].

The array that stores the pointers isn't there, because I get a very long list of completely incomprehensible output when I compile it. I get the same thing with this one. I can post a part of it later, if it's necessary, though I doubt it.

Hope I'm making sense. Essentially, am I doing something fundamentally wrong with this? And how do I actually access the pointers that are in the array?

I'd appreciate all tips and ideas. Thanks.

I believe you would be looking for something along these lines...

Code:

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        objVaraus *pList[31];
        objVaraus *pVaraus = new objVaraus;
       
        pList[0] = pVaraus;

        cout << "\n" << pVaraus << "\n";

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I'm assuming in this, that you have already overloaded the stream (<<) operator for the objVaraus class. Otherwise you would need to use ... pVaraus->vrVaraaja to display the string, etc etc...

pList[0] = new objVaraus; would also work.

I think this is the answer to what you were asking... if not, please clarify and I will try again. :p

Thanks for the reply. Basically what you posted, is what I have. But, it only works to display the memory address stored in pVaraus, when what I want to do, is display some of the content stored in the memory of that address. I tried this:

Code:

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objVaraus *pList[31];
objVaraus *pVaraus = new objVaraus;
       
pList[0] = pVaraus;

cout << "\n" << *pList[0] << "\n";

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But only got something like this:

Quote:

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pirtin_varaus.cpp: In function `int main()':
pirtin_varaus.cpp:65: error: no match for 'operator<<' in 'std::operator<<
[with _Traits = std::char_traits<char>]((&std::cout), "\n") << *pList[0]'
/usr/include/c++/3.3.4/bits/ostream.tcc:63: error: candidates are:
std::basic_ostream<_CharT, _Traits>& std::basic_ostream<_CharT,
_Traits>::operator<<(std::basic_ostream<_CharT,
_Traits>&(*)(std::basic_ostream<_CharT, _Traits>&)) [with _CharT = char,
_Traits = std::char_traits<char>]

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Then I tried this:

Code:

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objVaraus *pVaraus = new objVaraus;
objVaraus varaus;
pList[0] = pVaraus;

cout << "Anna varaajan nimi: ";
cin >> varaus.vrVaraaja;
cout << "\n" << *pList[0]->vrVaraaja << "\n";

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And I get this:

Quote:

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pirtin_varaus.cpp: In function `int main()':
pirtin_varaus.cpp:65: error: no match for 'operator*' in '*
pList[0]->objVaraus::vrVaraaja'

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So, I can display the memory address, but I can't display the content of that memory slot...

Code:

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cout << "\n" << *pList[0] << "\n";

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would work but you need to define an overloaded operator<< that can handle a objVaraus

Code:

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cout << "\n" << *pList[0]->vrVaraaja << "\n";

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also will work but you need to remove the leading * or change the -> to a .

Rember pList[0] returns a pointer, putting * in front returns the object it points to. -> accesses a member given a pointer, . accesses a member given the object.

Thanks a million Glorfindel-RW and Darryl. I managed to solve the problem. Also learned tons. I really appreciate it :)