Loading a double subscripted array

[Lambo]

Hey all, who are interested in my question.

Does anyone know how to load a double subscipted array from user input from a keyboard.

for example:

double sales[5][6];

while (condition is != sentinel value)
{
cin >> product >> value;


statement that adds values to the sales array.



I'm only primarily concernd with the "value" input.

How do you add the "value" variable to
the two-dim array without intializing it to the variable "value"?

Any help here would be much appreciated.

I know that there are plenty of gurus out there. So let me hear from ya and thanks.

[squeech]

If I understand the question fully (and I'd like to think that I am ), you are asking for the best way to fill a 2-D array?

The simplest way is probably just with two for loops and a cin statement...for example:

double sales[5][6];

for (int i=0;i<5;i++)
{
    for(int j=0;j<6;j++)
        cin >> sales[i][j];
}

The array would look something like this (with indices instead of values) for a 5x6 2-D after declaration:

[0][0] [0][1] [0][2] [0][3] [0][4] [0][5]
[1][0] [1][1] [1][2] [1][3] [1][4] [1][5]
[2][0] [2][1] [2][2] [2][3] [2][4] [2][5]
[3][0] [3][1] [3][2] [3][3] [3][4] [3][5]
[4][0] [4][1] [4][2] [4][3] [4][4] [4][5]


This code fills the array, with values from the keyboard, across the first row until the last column is reached ([0][0],[0][1],[0][2],etc. 'till [0][5]) and then jumps down to the next column and repeats.

Hope this helps!! Let me know if I missed the point entirely and can give better assistance!

[Lambo]

Hey thanks for the reply,

Yeah I figured that I could use that. The real problem was I didn't understand the problem well enough.

After tinkering around with it, I figured it out.

Thanks again for the reply