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Sarwar Morshed American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB)

The document discusses arrays in programming, noting that arrays are structures that contain related data items of the same type arranged consecutively in memory, with elements accessed via an index number. It covers array declaration with a specified type and size, initializing arrays with a for loop, initializer list, or setting all elements to the same value, and using arrays in assignments and operations like regular variables.

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Sarwar Morshed American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB)

The document discusses arrays in programming, noting that arrays are structures that contain related data items of the same type arranged consecutively in memory, with elements accessed via an index number. It covers array declaration with a specified type and size, initializing arrays with a for loop, initializer list, or setting all elements to the same value, and using arrays in assignments and operations like regular variables.

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Sarwar Morshed

American International University-Bangladesh


(AIUB)

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 Arrays
 Structures of related data items
 Static entity (same size throughout program)
 A few types
 Pointer-based arrays (C-like)
 Arrays as objects (C++)

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 Array
 Consecutive group of memory locations
 Same name and type (int, char, etc.)
 To refer to an element
 Specify array name and position number (index)
 Format: arrayname[ position number ]
 First element at position 0
 N-element array c
c[ 0 ], c[ 1 ] … c[ n - 1 ]
 Nth element as position N-1

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 Array elements like other variables
 Assignment, printing for an integer array c
c[ 0 ] = 3;
cout << c[ 0 ];
 Can perform operations inside subscript
c[ 5 – 2 ] same as c[3]

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Name of array (Note


that all elements of
this array have the
same name, c)

c[0] -45
c[1] 6
c[2] 0
c[3] 72
c[4] 1543
c[5] -89
c[6] 0
c[7] 62
c[8] -3
c[9] 1
c[10] 6453
c[11] 78

Position number of the


element within array c

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 When declaring arrays, specify
 Name
 Type of array
 Any data type
 Number of elements
 type arrayName[ arraySize ];
int c[ 10 ]; // array of 10 integers
float d[ 3284 ]; // array of 3284 floats

 Declaring multiple arrays of same type


 Use comma separated list, like regular variables
int b[ 100 ], x[ 27 ];

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 Initializing arrays
 For loop
 Set each element
 Initializer list
 Specify each element when array declared
int n[ 5 ] = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 };
 If not enough initializers, rightmost elements 0
 If too many syntax error
 To set every element to same value
int n[ 5 ] = { 0 };
 If array size omitted, initializers determine size
int n[] = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 };
 5 initializers, therefore 5 element array

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