string help

[ngopza]

Hi. I am a bit confused.

If I have a class called Name for instance;

  class Name
{
private:
string *name;
int num;

public:

Name(string n);

is it possible to create an array of 3 Name objects.

I tried Name *n = new Name[];
this doesnt work.

Please help

[mutexe]

#include <string>
#include <vector>


class Name
{
private:
	std::string m_name;
	int m_num;

public:
	Name(std::string n)
	{
		m_name = n;
	}
};

int main()
{
	std::vector<Name> namesCollection;

	namesCollection.push_back(Name("tom"));
	namesCollection.push_back(Name("dick"));
	namesCollection.push_back(Name("harry"));

	return 0;
}

or use an array of Name*'s if you wanna dynamically create and add to the collection on the fly.

[ngopza]

thanks but Is there a way to recieve just the first elements of every object;

	namesCollection.push_back(Name("tom the guy"));
	namesCollection.push_back(Name("dick the dick"));
	namesCollection.push_back(Name("harry the potter"))

To retrieve tom dick and harry only

[mutexe]

can you explain a bit more please?

[R10111001]

namesCollection[0] or namesCollection.at(0)?
Sorry, I read through your question too fast and gave an answer that doesn't help you very much. Look at TheIdeasMan's post instead.

[ngopza]

BUT IT GIVES ME THE MEMORY ADDRESS.ANY SUGGESTIONS

[TheIdeasMan]

Hi ngopza,

Have a look at these:

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/string/string/find/
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/string/string/find_first_of/

With the second one, you could use this to search for spaces, so you can find the first word, regardless of what that word is.

Hope all goes well.