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C++ Primer, Fourth Edition
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C++ Primer, Fourth Edition

by Stanley B. Lippman, Josée Lajoie, Barbara E. Moo
February 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
912 pages
25h 26m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 4. Arrays and Pointers

CONTENTS

Section 4.1 Arrays 110

Section 4.2 Introducing Pointers 114

Section 4.3 C-Style Character Strings 130

Section 4.4 Multidimensioned Arrays 141

Chapter Summary 145

Defined Terms 145

The language defines two lower-level compound types—arrays and pointers—that are similar to vectors and iterators. Like a vector, an array holds a collection of objects of some type. Unlike vectors, arrays are fixed size; once an array is created, new elements cannot be added. Like iterators, pointers can be used to navigate among and examine the elements in an array.

Modern C++ programs should almost always use vectors and iterators in preference to the lower-level arrays and pointers. Well-designed programs use arrays and ...

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