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From: cs00jec@unccvax.uncc.edu (Jim Cain)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: initializing a struct (or any class) array
Keywords: struct initialization
Message-ID: <2840@unccvax.uncc.edu>
Date: 14 Oct 90 19:59:55 GMT
Organization: University of NC at Charlotte
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I am trying to define a structure array for a static set of data. In C I
would declare the following:

struct {
   char *name;
   int i;
} list [] = {
   "namezero", 5,
   "nameone", 1,
   ...
   "namen", 16
};

This will be used by a parser as a look-up table for command names and
other information which belongs to each command.

This is identical to C code I have written that works. My question is --
Is something this simple possible in C++? It seems that C++ considers
structs and unions as classes. Can you initialize class object arrays
like this? I really don't want the overhead of using pointers (such as
a linked list representation) because there is no reason for this data
to be dynamic (unless, of course, that's the only way to do it).