Assigning the value of a const array to a normal array

I'm wondering if there is a way to do something like this:

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const int constArray[3][3] = {0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0};
int myArray[3][3];

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myArray = constArray;
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Obviously I could just loop over the arrays and set each element, but that seems inefficient. I'm not suprised that the above doesn't work. I half-heartedly tried assigning the address of myArray to the address of constArray but that didn't work either. I've got a few other ideas bouncing around but I thought I'd ask and see if anyone has a particularly good way of doing this before I do something strange (as I'd done a fair bit of searching and didn't turn up anything).

I think i know what you're looking for, but unfortunately don't know how to do it yet with arrays. It's called operator overloading (you'll want to overload the '=' operator). Sorry I can't help you much. :(

"you'll want to overload the '=' operator"

Hmmm..where are classes involved?

Array names are constant pointers, i.e you cannot change their addresses, which is what this line tries to do:

myArray = constArray;

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Hmmm..where are classes involved?

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Thought you could do it w/o classes?

Thanks for the help guys. Both of Salem's struct and memcpy methods worked (memcpy was one I had in mind to try...the struct one was new to me), and I think I'll end up using memcpy because it seems redudant to keep a class around that contains nothing more than one member (thus forcing me to say foo.array[][] everytime I want something out of it).

I'm using this approach because each instance of the class that owns this array will start with the contents being something, but the contents will likely change based on each instance. If they were not going to change once initialized, but had dozens of possible initial configurations, I'd think keeping a pointer around to point to the appropriate const array initial set up would be the way to go. Is there a way to set a pointer to a const array? My quick experiment failed, something like this:

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int *ptr = 0;
const int array[2][2] = {0, 1, 1, 0};

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ptr = array;
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...maybe this would be a more illustrative example:

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const int (*ptr)[2] = 0;
const int array[6][2] = { { 0, 1 }, { 1, 0 } };

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Thanks for the help guys. :)