When dealing with multidimensional arrays, is it possible to assign two different variable types to the array...
For example you have the array int example[i][j] is it possible for i and j to be two completely different variable types such as int and string?
Sounds like you're looking for:
std::vector<std::map<std::string, int> > myData1;
or perhaps:
std::map<int, std::map<std::string, int> > myData2;
The first would require you to resize the vector to an appropriate size before using the indexing operators:
myData1.resize(100);
myData1[25]["hello"] = 7;
...while the second would allow you to assign to any element directly (and sparsely):
myData2[25]["hello"] = 7;
map if you try to index something that doesn't exist, it will create it automatically with a default value.No, C++ only allows integer types (ex: int, long, unsigned int, size_t, char) as indexes.
If you want to index by a string, you could try std::map<std::string,mytype> but it gets complicated trying to extend that to two dimensions.
No, but you could use std::maps.
No, you can only use integer types as indices.
array[name][score] to access some third piece of data?No you can't. You could achieve this with std::map though.
