How to initialize an array in C++ objects

Question

After reading How to initialize an array in C, in particular:

Don\'t overlook the obvious solution, though:

int myArray[10] = { 5, 5, 5, 5

Answer 1

Unless I'm mistaken, the initializer list is only allowed for when the variable is initialized during declaration - hence the name. You can't assign an initializer list to a variable, as you're trying to do in most of your examples.

In your last example, you're trying to add static initialization to a non-static member. If you want the array to be a static member of the class, you could try something like this:

class Derp {
private:
    static int myArray[10];
}

Derp::myArray[] = { 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 };

If you want to add a class member, you could try making the static array const and copy it into the member array in the constructor.