How to initialize only few elements of an array with some values?

Question

This might be a stupid question, but is it possible to assign some values to an array instead of all? To clarify what I want:

If I need an array lik

Answer 1

Here is my trivial approach:

int array[12] = {0};
array[0] = 1; array[4] = 2; array[8] = 3;

However, technically speaking, this is not "initializing" the array :)