Use new operator to initialise an array

Question

I want to initialise an array in the format that uses commas to separate the elements surrounded in curly braces e.g:

int array[10]={1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10};
         


        

Answer 1

In the new Standard for C++ (C++11), you can do this:

int* a = new int[10] { 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 };

It's called an initializer list. But in previous versions of the standard that was not possible.

The relevant online reference with further details (and very hard to read) is here. I also tried it using GCC and the --std=c++0x option and confirmed that it works indeed.