Basic Computer Engineering (Subject Code: BE - 205) by Pearson

Arrays and Structures in C++ 8.5

This array is organized in memory as 15 elements in contiguous location (Figure 8.4). However, the

programmer can view it as three rows of fi ve integer entries each.

First Row Second Row Third Row

…...

…...

21 21 22 23 24 35 55 58 60 65 40 95 96 97 98

Figure 8.4 Organization of salary in memory

8.4.1 Initialization

The two-dimensional array may be initialized using a nested initialization:

int Salary [ 3 ] [ 5 ] = {

{21, 21, 22, 23, 24},

{35, 55, 58, 60, 65},

{40, 95, 96, 97, 98}

} ;

Since this is mapped to a one-dimensional array of 15 elements in memory, it is equivalent to:

int Salary [ 3 ] [ 5 ] = {

21, 21, 22, 23, ...