Thread: Accessing an array index with a string?

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    Accessing an array index with a string?

    Is it possible to access an array index with a string? For example

    string week[7];
    week["Monday"] = "some value";

    I'm trying to read in a Java properties file and want to be able to access each property by its name instead of an index number. I can't use map.h since that's tied to gnu c++.

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    That would be a map. (I have no idea what you mean by "map.h is tied to gnu c++" since (1) it's <map> not <map.h> and (2) it most certainly is not tied to GNU.)

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    Oh... looks like you're right. I thought the map functionality was tied to gnu. Maybe that's for C? Any I now have

    Code:
    #include <string>
    #include <iostream>
    #include <fstream>
    #include <map>
    
    using namespace std;
    
    typedef map<const string, const string> Properties;
    
    int main()
    {
        string propsLoc = "config.properties";
        
        Properties props;
        char s[256];
        string temp;
        
        /* Read properties file into props */
        ifstream ifs( propsLoc.c_str() );    
        while(ifs.getline(s,256)) 
        {
          temp = s;
          props.insert(pair<const string, const string>(temp.substr(0,temp.find('=')),temp.substr(temp.find('=')+1)));
        }
        ifs.close();
    }
    But the insert function is giving me an error. Does this code look correct?

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    Use std::make_pair instead, e.g.,
    Code:
    props.insert(make_pair(temp.substr(0, temp.find('=')), temp.substr(temp.find('=') + 1)));
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