A clever way to name unknown amount of variables

Hi dee Ho again people!

I have a lil problem. I'm trying to do a vector containing vectors... And in case some of you visit multiple boards as I do, yes I did this same post on one another board... Reason is that I need to solve the problem. asap.
Well, basically there's no problem, but... I do not know how many vectors the vector containing vectors will contain

Problem is that I do not have those vectors already created, so I should first create right amount of vectors inside a vector, before starting to feed values in them.

I tried following:

Code:

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vector< vector<string> > mainvector;
vector<string> *col_na = new vector<string>[ncols];
//I tried to do an array of string type vectors first, and there the ncols is int type variable telling how many of those I need.
for(i=0;i<ncols;i++)
{
        mainvector.push_back(*(col_na+i));
}
// there the mainvector should now contain those other vectors.

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This compiles ok with -Wall flag, but when I run it only thing happens is

matti@linux:~> ./test
Aborted
matti@linux:~>

Any ideas how to do this? Is there a way to use something stored in a stringvariable as a name for those vectors I wish to store inside the mainvector, instead of using array of pointers?

Compiles and runs fine for me. Your error is somewhere else.

But your description is not very clear. What exactly is it that you want?

isn't that the same as something like this?

Code:

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typedef vector<string> COLS;

vector<COLS> array;

array.resize(n); // now array will contain n number of COLS vectors

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;

There is no need to use new. This works:

Code:

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vector< vector<string> > mainvector(ncols, vector<string>());

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If you don't know what ncols is at the time you construct mainvector, then you can use resize, or create vector<string>s on the stack and use push_back to add (copies of) them to the mainvector.

A clever way to name an unknown amount of variables?

That statement isn't clever in itself much less the method that I still haven't seen anywhere in this post.

When do you have an unknown amount of variables?