Array of pointers

[pghsteelers]

What is incorrect about the assignment:

int* arrVar[] = { 2, 5, 94, 03, 2};

I get the error:
error C2440: 'initializing' : cannot convert from 'const int' to 'int *

yet the same format of:

char* arrVar[] = {"howdy",
"goodbye"};

is ok?

 

[cpjust]

int* arrVar[] is declaring an array of int* pointers, but you are assigning an array of ints, not pointers. Use this instead:

int arrVar[]

{"howdy", "goodbye"}; is a 2d array of char* strings, so: char arrVar[] would be wrong in this case since howdy & goodbye have more than just one char.

 

[pghsteelers]

Thank you kindly for the explanation.

However, if I want an array of pointers each point to an int, how do I assign that, so that I have an array of pointers with each element a pointer to a int value.

 

[cpjust]

You could do something like this, but I don't know why you'd want to:

int* arrVar[] = { new int(1), new int(2), new int(3) };