Creating arrays in C++ without knowing the length ahead of time

Question

I\'m working on a small program to help speed up some data analysis for my lab work. It\'s supposed to read in data from a text file, create a bunch of arrays containing thi

Answer 1

You say that you're not comfortable with dynamically-sized arrays, or std::vector.

I'm afraid that you'll have to figure out how to get comfortable here, because that's precisely what's std::vector is for.

The only other alternative is to use the gcc compiler. gcc does allow you to have variable-sized arrays. It's a compiler extension, it's not standard C or C++:

void method(size_t n)
{
   dataPoint array[n];

   // Do something with the array.
}