C++ provides a data structure, the
array, which stores a fixed-size sequential collection of elements of the
same type. An array is used to store a collection of data, but it is often more
useful to think of an array as a collection of variables of the same type.
Instead
of declaring individual variables, such as number0, number1, ..., and number99,
you declare one array variable such as numbers and use numbers[0], numbers[1],
and ..., numbers[99] to represent individual variables. A specific element in
an array is accessed by an index.
All
arrays consist of contiguous memory locations. The lowest address corresponds
to the first element and the highest address to the last element.
Declaring Arrays:-
To declare an array in C++, the programmer specifies the type
of the elements and the number of elements required by.
type arrayName [arraySize];
This is called a
single-dimension array. The arraySize must be an integer constant greater than zero and type can be any
valid C++ data type. For example, to declare a 10-element array called balance
of type double, use this statement.
Double balance[10];
Initializing Arrays:-
You
can initialize C++ array elements either one by one or using a single statement
as.
double balance[] = {100.0,2.0,3.9,17.9};
The above
statement assigns element number 5th in the array a value of
50.0. Array with 4th index will be 5th, i.e., last
element because all arrays have 0 as the index of their first element which is
also called base index.
Accessing Array
Elements
An
element is accessed by indexing the array name. This is done by placing the
index of the element within square brackets after the name of the array.
double salary = balance [9];