Incrementation impossible?

[Prometheum]

Having read over some of the disscussions involving incrementing variable names in C++, I have the impression that it's impossible. Is that true? I have a very definite need for them in the following program, and an array won't work. I need to read over a file and store certain information in a struct (person dave; dave.money=200 etc.). However, to stay true to the spec I shouldn't assume that there will always be x many entries I need to store. This means I should have a dynamic amount of struct declarations, and this seems impossible to me.

Is there any way to do this?

The struct:

struct person{
string name;
vector<string> repnames;
int money;
int togive;
};

What I need to do:

void readloop(int othernumber, fstream &niceinfile, vector<string>namespace2, int count){
    person dave;
    input>>dave.name;
    input>>dave.money;
    input>>dave.togive;
}

...Except change dave to S1-x, or anything else that will work. Can I use c_str() to do this, maybe? I'm at a loss for what to do here.

[Ganon11]

You can create a vector of structs. Every time you need a new person, use .push_back() to add him to the vector, then initialize the variables normally.

[Prometheum]

Thanks, that works. I can't believe I was dim enough not to know I could just make an array of my struct! Thanks for the help.

[Ganon11]

No problem - just glad I could help!