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Help! Final assignment

We have to make a vector by an initialization list and then we have to give the length of the vector using the sizeof() function. How exactly do we write a sizeof() function? (We are using c++, this is a beginner course)

1st Dec 2017, 7:41 AM
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The sizeof is not a function but an operator in C++ Do you wish to rewrite the sizeof operator definition or just use it to get the size/ length of the vector? If all you want is to retrieve the length , you should use size() to get the size of the vector, rather than using sizeof like we do for normal arrays. This is as sizeof(vec)/sizeof(vec[0]) does not work as expected with vectors... Consider the following program: #include<iostream> #include<vector> using namespace std; int main() { vector<int> vec = {1,2,3,4}; // Initialized a vector using list cout<<sizeof(vec)/sizeof(vec[0])<<endl; cout<<vec.size()<<endl; // Returns true length. for(int i:vec) cout<<i<<" "; } In this program, even when you change the elements during initialization, the sizeof(vec) returns a constant value - 12, which is less than the size we expected for 4, 5 or more elements. So use the size method instead...
1st Dec 2017, 8:46 AM
Kinshuk Vasisht
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Okay I just had to delete my question that I asked you... because it was written already. Thank you so much for your help
1st Dec 2017, 9:33 AM
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