Subj : Re: Declaring a Dynamic String
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp,borland.public.cppbuilder.language.cpp
From : hgiese
Date : Tue Nov 09 2004 04:30 pm

On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 10:56:56 -0500, "DKat" <dkat@ms.cc.sunysb.edu>
wrote:

>In old days I would simply do a malloc to create a triple array of char as 
>needed to handle the problem I am now facing but I am now using AnsiString 
>and while I can figure out how to easily create a single new TStringList 
>(which I think is what I would use for an array of AnsiStrings) I can't 
>figure out how to do a double array....
>
>What I am doing is setting up a case where you have two dimensions that are 
>unknown.  You have a unknown number of rows of strings and an unknown number 
>of columns of strings.  This is read in as a CSV file which has preceding 
>the row and column of Strings how many rows and columns there are.
How about handling each row with vector<string> and representing your
complete table with a vector<vector<string>>?
'vector' seems like a reasonable choice, given that the dimensions of
your table won't change. If this might happen, choose a list instead
of a vector.
'string' might be std::string but could as well be AnsiString (if you
want to tie yourself to Borland :) ).
HTH
Helmut Giese

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