C++ How to dynamically create a 2D vector

Question

I'm trying to create an nxn vector that I can later cout as a table/matrix. Xcode points to the = in the for loop and tells me No viable overloaded '=' . I don't know what that means or how to fix it.

int n=5;
vector< vector<int> > row(n);
for (int i=0; i<n; i++) {
   row[i] = new vector<int> column(n);
}

Also tried this, but Xcode didn't like it either and this time pointed to column and said Expected ')' :

int n=5;
vector< vector<int> > row;
for (int i=0; i<n; i++) {
   row.push_back(new vector<int> column(n));
}

My guess is that it has something to do with the way I'm declaring the new vector column inside the for loop. Any help/advice is much appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

The simple solution is to use the relevant constructor of std::vector , initializing it to n elements each having the value of val - no loops necessary.

std::vector<T> (n, val);

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Having your original snippet we would end up with the following, which will initialize row to have n std::vector s, each of which having n elements.

std::vector<std::vector<int> > row (n, std::vector<int> (n));

Answer 2

Try the following

int n = 5;
std::vector< std::vector<int> > row(n);
for (int i=0; i<n; i++) {
   row[i].push_back( std::vector<int>(n) );
}

or

int n = 5;
std::vector< std::vector<int> > row(n, std::vector<int>( n ) );

Answer 3

When the constructor of row is called, all elements are initialized too. I think this code does what you're looking to do:

for (int i=0; i<n; i++) {
    row[i].resize(n);
}

Now all elements of row will be of size n .