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++.

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.)

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:

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#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();
}

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But the insert function is giving me an error. Does this code look correct?

Use std::make_pair instead, e.g.,

Code:

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props.insert(make_pair(temp.substr(0, temp.find('=')), temp.substr(temp.find('=') + 1)));

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