Thread: Dynamic 3D array allocation

If all the dimensions should be dynamical, you could do like this:

char *dynarray;
long dimx, dimy, dimz;

//macro for calculating the position of a coordinate in the array:
#define getarr(x,y,z) dynarray[x+y*dimx+z*dimx*dimy]

//code for declaring and using the array:

dimx = 5; dimy = 5; dimz = 5;

dynarray = new char[dimx*dimy*dimz];

getarr(0,0,0) = 0;

delete [] dynarray;

You can't do it.

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You can't do it.

Wrong! There sure is possible solution. Look at this:

Code:

const int Xsize = 20;
const int Ysize = 30;
const int Zsize = 80;

char ***3DArray;

// Allocating array:

3DArray = new char**[Xsize];

for (int i=0; i<Xsize; ++i)
{
  3DArray[i] = new char*[Ysize];

  for (int j=0; j<Ysize; ++j)  3DArray[i][j] = new char[Zsize];
}

// destroying array:

for (int i=0; i<Xsize; ++i)
{
  for (int j=0; j<Ysize; ++j)  delete [] 3DArray[i][j];

  delete [] 3DArray[i];
}

delete [] 3DArray;

Now you can access this array with 3DArray[2][5][25]