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};
You can use memcpy
after the allocation.
int originalArray[] ={1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10};
int *array = new int[10];
memcpy(array, originalArray, 10*sizeof(int) );
I'm not aware of any syntax that lets you do this automagically.
Much later edit:
const int *array = new int[10]{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10};
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.