Hello, just a little question. I have an object, Character, that has an array of ints as a data member. Let's say it's called: int m_myArray[9]; I want to write a method for this object that returns a pointer or reference to myArray so that another object, called Actor, can receive it and access the values in the array. The method in Character may look something like this: int ArrayQuery() { return m_myArray[0]; } ; The Actor object needs to call Character.ArrayQuery() to find out the address of the array and store it in a data member so that it can access elements in the array from any of its methods. So Character has an array of ints as a data member, and Actor has access to this array (a reference or pointer?) stored as a data member. The end result is, any method of Actor can access the values in the Character object's m_myArray[]. The Actor object will know the size of the array, so I don't need to worry about bounds checking. Should I pass as a pointer or reference and perhaps someone can help with the syntax? [Edited by - darenking on August 2, 2005 4:42:17 AM]

If I understand your question correctly then the simplest possible thing would be:

class Character{public:  const int* GimmieTheArray(void) const { return myArray;}private:int myArray[ArraySize];};

you could simply overload the operator <type you want to return>*(){return yourarray};

Quote:Original post by snk_kid
Pointer decay is a nasty thingTM [grin]:

DontRepeatYourself[attention]

class Character{	typedef int array_t[ArraySize];	typedef array_t& array_ref;	typedef array_t const& const_array_ref;public:	const_array_ref GimmieTheArray(void) const { return myArray;}private:	array_t myArray;};