Mixed Arrays in C++ and C#

Question

Is it possible to create a Mixed Array in both C++ and C#

I mean an array that contains both chars and ints?

ex:

Array [][] = {{\'a\',1},{\'b         


        

Answer 1

Neither C# nor C++ support creating this kind of data structure using native arrays, however you could create a List> in C# or a std::vector> in C++.

You could also consider using the Dictionary<> or std::map<> collections if one of the elements can be considered a unique key, and the order of the elements is unimportant but only their association.

For the case of lists (rather than dictionaries), in C# you would write:

List> items = new List>();

items.Add( new Tuple('a', 1) );
items.Add( new Tuple('b', 2) );
items.Add( new Tuple('c', 3) );

and in C++ you would write:

std::vector> items;  // you could typedef std::pair
items.push_back( std::pair( 'a', 1 ) );
items.push_back( std::pair( 'b', 2 ) );
items.push_back( std::pair( 'c', 3 ) );