Thread: Nested for loop & vector issue

Hi,

I can't seem to understand why this is not working as expected. The output from the two "couts" are different. Can someone please explain why?

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
using namespace std;


int main()
{
  vector<int> vIntA, vIntB;
 

  for(int a =0; a<6;a++)
  {
      for(int b=0; b< 5; b++ )
       {
        vIntA.push_back(a);
        vIntB.push_back(b);
        cout << "a: " << a << ", b: " << b << "\n";
        }
   }

  for(int a =0; a<6;a++)
  {
      for(int b=0; b< 5; b++ )
         cout << "a: " << a   ", vIntA: " << vIntA.at(a) << ", vIntB: " << vIntB.at(b) << "\n";
  }

   return 0;
}

1st cout:
-a & b work as intended.
2nd cout:
-a & b is ok, as is vIntB. But vIntA is incorrect, mostly with zeros until it accesses 5th element where it's 1's.

What am I missing here?

In the first for loops, 'a' loops onces, and 'b' loops 5 times. Then again goes to 'a'.

When enters in the 'b' loop, it will loop over and over until is done. Then it will go back to 'a' loop, where will meet 'b' loop again.