Stroustrup exercise 7 section 5.9 (using struct)

[arnuld]

i do not have any problem here. i solved the problem but i wanted to
know the views of you. please look at it from a newbie's perspective:

problem: define a table with names of months of the year & the number
of days in each month. write out that table. do this using: "a struct &
an array of that struct"

this is the solution i have created:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>

struct month_day {
std::string month;
int days;
};

// creating 12 structures
month_day md0 = {"Jan", 31};
month_day md1 = {"Feb", 28};
.................................................
month_day md11 = {"Dec", 31};

month_day arr_struct[arr_size] =
{md0, md1, md2, md3, md4, md5, md6, md7, md8, md9, md10, md11};

void print_struct_arr(month_day as[])
{
for(int i=0; i < arr_size; ++i)
std::cout << as[i].month << "\t" << as[i].days << "\n";
}
int main() {
print_struct_arr(arr_struct);
}

[Victor Bazarov]

arnuld wrote:

i do not have any problem here. i solved the problem but i wanted to
know the views of you. please look at it from a newbie's perspective:

problem: define a table with names of months of the year & the number
of days in each month. write out that table. do this using: "a struct
& an array of that struct"

this is the solution i have created:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>

struct month_day {
std::string month;
int days;
};

// creating 12 structures
month_day md0 = {"Jan", 31};
month_day md1 = {"Feb", 28};
................................................
month_day md11 = {"Dec", 31};

month_day arr_struct[arr_size] =
{md0, md1, md2, md3, md4, md5, md6, md7, md8, md9, md10, md11};

There is duplication of data here. What for? Couldn't you simply
initialise the array elements using the brace notation?

>
void print_struct_arr(month_day as[])
{
for(int i=0; i < arr_size; ++i)
std::cout << as[i].month << "\t" << as[i].days << "\n";
}
int main() {
print_struct_arr(arr_struct);
}

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[mlimber]

Victor Bazarov wrote:

arnuld wrote:

i do not have any problem here. i solved the problem but i wanted to
know the views of you. please look at it from a newbie's perspective:

problem: define a table with names of months of the year & the number
of days in each month. write out that table. do this using: "a struct
& an array of that struct"

this is the solution i have created:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>

struct month_day {
std::string month;
int days;
};

// creating 12 structures
month_day md0 = {"Jan", 31};
month_day md1 = {"Feb", 28};
................................................
month_day md11 = {"Dec", 31};

month_day arr_struct[arr_size] =
{md0, md1, md2, md3, md4, md5, md6, md7, md8, md9, md10, md11};

There is duplication of data here. What for? Couldn't you simply
initialise the array elements using the brace notation?

void print_struct_arr(month_day as[])
{
for(int i=0; i < arr_size; ++i)
std::cout << as[i].month << "\t" << as[i].days << "\n";
}
int main() {
print_struct_arr(arr_struct);
}

Besides that, the comments from my response to your post on the array
version apply here, too.

Cheers! --M

[arnuld]

Victor Bazarov wrote:

There is duplication of data here. What for?

i know but i was not able to find a way out.

Couldn't you simply
initialise the array elements using the brace notation?

yes i could.

[arnuld]

Besides that, the comments from my response to your post on the array

version apply here, too.

thanks buddy :-)

Cheers! --M

ok i say, cheers! ;-)

[Earl Purple]

arnuld wrote:

Victor Bazarov wrote:

There is duplication of data here. What for?

i know but i was not able to find a way out.

Couldn't you simply
initialise the array elements using the brace notation?

yes i could.

const month_day arr_struct[] =
{
{ "Jan", 31 },
{ "Feb", 28 },
{ "Mar", 31 },

// etc to

{ "Dec", 31 }
};

[arnuld]

const month_day arr_struct[] =

{
{ "Jan", 31 },
{ "Feb", 28 },
{ "Mar", 31 },

// etc to

{ "Dec", 31 }
};

thanks & Stroustrup said in problem statement that it *must* be an
"array of struct".