Subj : Re: Declaring a Dynamic String
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp,borland.public.cppbuilder.language.cpp
From : DKat
Date : Tue Nov 09 2004 11:57 am

"Andrue Cope [TeamB]" <no.spam@not.a.valid.address> wrote in message 
news:4190eb9c@newsgroups.borland.com...
> DKat wrote:
>
>> So - does anyone have a clue what I'm trying to convey
>> and how to deal with it properly?
>
> You could create a two dimensional array of AnsiStrings but the size
> isn't fixed so you'd have to do that on the heap. That's perfectly
> possible but a PITA.
>
> How about using std::vector?
>
> typedef std::vector<AnsiString> ColumnOfAnsiStrings;
> typedef std::vector<ColumnOfAnsiStrings> GridOfAnsiStrings;
>
> WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE, HINSTANCE, LPSTR, int)
> {
>  GridOfAnsiStrings grid;
>
>  for( int columnIndex=0;
>       columnIndex<10;
>       ++columnIndex )
>  {
>    ColumnOfAnsiStrings column;
>
>    for( int rowIndex=0;
>         rowIndex<10;
>         ++rowIndex )
>      column.push_back( AnsiString( columnIndex )+
>                        ","+AnsiString( rowIndex ) );
>
>    grid.push_back( column );
>  }
>
>  ShowMessage( grid[ 5 ][ 6 ] ); // "5,6"
> }
>
> -- 
> Andrue Cope [TeamB]
> [Bicester, Uk]
> http://info.borland.com/newsgroups/guide.html
That is just beautiful!  I have never seen a vector before and have nothing 
of them in my books.  I will have to hunt it down  so that I understand what 
it is that I'm doing but this is exactly what I want.  Thank you!

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