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Stephan Dollberg
Stephan Dollberg

Reputation: 34618

Initializing a vector of a struct in a struct

I know how to get a struct in a struct working but what I can't get to work is vector of a struct in a struct.

Creating a vector of a struct on a normal basis works for example with:

vector<struct> str1(100);

but how do I do that if I have the following code:

struct attribures {
    string name;
    bool value;
};

struct thing {
    string name;
    double y;
    int x;
    vector<attributes> attrib;
};

How can I now initialize elements of the vector? One thing I could do is something like the following:

attributes a;
objec.attrib.push_back(a); // object is a struct of type thing

But that solution doesnt seem that elegant to me. Is there anyway that is more of the first kind?

EDIT: sorry for the confusion. The "100" was actually just an example and in the second example it was actually also just an example, which is supposed to show how it could be done but doesn't seem very elegant to me.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 9528

Answers (3)

Sebastian Mach
Sebastian Mach

Reputation: 39109

In case of C++0x, you have several possibilities:

#include <vector>
#include <string>    

int main () {
    struct Person {
        Person(std::string const &name, int age) : name (name), age(age) {}
        std::string name;
        int age;
    };

    std::vector<Person> vec { {"John", 24},
                              {"Dani", 32} };

    vec.emplace_back ("Frobster", -2);
    vec.push_back ({"Little unknown rascal", 7});
}

If you don't want to write a non-default constructor, you can still do:

#include <vector>
#include <string>    

int main () {
    struct Person {
        std::string name;
        int age;
    };

    std::vector<Person> vec { {"John", 24},
                              {"Dani", 32} };

    vec.emplace_back (Person{"Frobster", -2});
    vec.push_back (Person{"Little unknown rascal", 7});
}

Though the emplace_back is superfluous then.

Upvotes: 2

Tristram Gr&#228;bener
Tristram Gr&#228;bener

Reputation: 9721

Your question is not clear, so I'm trying to guess what you want to do. If you want that thing is always initialized with 100 elements, you need to use a constructor (I also initialized x and y as they are undefined by default, so it's good to initialize them):

struct thing {
    string name;
    double y;
    int x;
    vector<attributes> attrib;
    thing() : y(0), x(0), attrib(100) {}

};

If you want to build a vector of 100 elements with a default value:

attributes a;
a.name = "fOO";
std::vector<attributes> attrib(100, a);

This will give you a vector of 100 elements having "foo" as name.

And of course you can combine both examples ;)

Upvotes: 2

Andreas Brinck
Andreas Brinck

Reputation: 52549

Perhaps add a constructor to attributes:

struct attributes{
    attributes(const string& name, bool value) : name(name), value(value) {}
    string name;
    bool value;
};

and then:

 object.attrib.push_back(attributes("foo", true));

Upvotes: 6

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