Hello programmers! I am trying to return an array, made up of 7 members, all type ints via a pointer from a function. Here is a prototype of a function that does this:
int[7] colCountArray={0,0,0,0,0,0,0} //array saved in Board obj.
int* Board::accessColCount()
{
return &colCountArray;
}
However, my compiler dosnt like this. How can I fix this problem?
int* Board::accessColCount()
{
return colCountArray;
}
This will return an int-pointer, pointing inside the board objdect, to its colCountArray.
Thanks! I forgot about that.
Alternatively
int* Board::accessColCount()
{
return &colCountArray[0];
}
Simply returning &colCountArray is an int** as the array name itself is a pointer, illustrated by Moschops' reply.
Anyway, this stuff is why C/C++ is difficult for many programmers, dealing with pointer issues and arithmetic.
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