Visual C++ 2008: How to Program, Second Edition

Chapter 8. Arrays and Vectors

	Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book.
	--Isaiah 30:8

	Begin at the beginning, ... and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
	--Lewis Carroll

	To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.
	--Confucius

OBJECTIVES

In this chapter you’ll learn:

• To use the array data structure to represent a set of related data items.

• To use arrays to store, sort and search lists and tables of values.

• To declare arrays, initialize arrays and refer to the individual elements of arrays.

• To pass arrays to functions.

• Basic searching and sorting techniques.

• To declare and manipulate multidimensional arrays.

• To use C++ Standard Library class template vector.

• To create and use managed arrays with C++/CLI.

Outline
8.1	Introduction ...