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How to count the elements of an array?

Apr 24th, 2009

If i have an array like that
int x[100]={1,0,3};

so only i have 3 elements and the rest of the array is zero, how can i count the number of elements in a larger one ..

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Re: How to count the elements of an array?

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Do you mean to check how many elements there are in an array?

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Re: How to count the elements of an array?

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I want to know how many elements in the array, not the size of the array...
E.g:

int x[1000]={1,22,3,54,7,89,1,0,0,1,2}
Number of elements = 11

is there any possible way to that.

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Re: How to count the elements of an array?

Apr 24th, 2009

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int array[10]={1,5,6,2,4,5,7,8,5};
 
    int n=0;
    int p;
    while (p!= '\0')
    {
                n++;
                p = array[n];
    }    
 
    cout << "There are "<<n-1 << " elements in the array.";
int array[10]={1,5,6,2,4,5,7,8,5};

    int n=0;
    int p;
    while (p!= '\0')
    {
                n++;
                p = array[n];
    }    

    cout << "There are "<<n-1 << " elements in the array.";

You shorten the code but its basically how you do it.

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Re: How to count the elements of an array?

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This isn't working when i have for example the following array:

int x[100]={1,2,3,0,3,5,4,1};
The actual number of elements is 8,
but he will display 4

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Re: How to count the elements of an array?

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Edited the code, try again,

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Re: How to count the elements of an array?

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Originally Posted by Dannyo329

Edited the code, try again,

It will still fail. You are using P, but it's not initialized to anything.
Also 'n' will start at element 1, not 0
Also '\0' is the termination-character for CHAR- arrays, not INT.

@OP:
You could initialize your entire array to -1 if you only need positive numbers and then check when the first value is < 0, that'll give you the number of ints.
Or you could use a counter to keep track of the number of ints.
Or you could use a vector<int>

Could you tell us why you need this functionality?

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Re: How to count the elements of an array?

Apr 24th, 2009

>>Edited the code, try again,
Sorry, OP is right. x[100]={1,2,3,0,3,5,4,1}; will print 2 elements

To the OP:
You cannot !. Yes you cannot. However surprise it may bring to you, the truth is you really you cannot.
Thats why most of functions dealing with int array often asks you to enter the length of the array as one of the argument.
You will have to track the length of the array yourself.

Edit: Niek, I don't know why I couldn't see you editing, but the fact is that my "viewing list" at the bottom of page told me that no one was replying to the thread while I was.

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Originally Posted by siddhant3s

Edit: Niek, I don't know why I couldn't see you editing, but the fact is that my "viewing list" at the bottom of page told me that no one was replying to the thread while I was.

I've set my profile to 'invisible', so no-one can see what I'm doing here

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