Assign Values to Elements

The assignment statement allows you to store a value in a variable. This can now be extended to allow you to store a value in an element of an array. To achieve this, you indicate the array as well as the index of the element you want to store the value in.

Assigning a value to an element of the array

Note

• The assignment statement is an instruction, storing a value in a variable or array.
• When working with arrays, you can store a value in an element by specify the array and index of the element.
• You can code this in C/C++ using: data[1] = 127.5 * 2;. In this case, data is the name of the array variable, and 1 is the index of the second element. The code in the snippet stores a 255.0 in the second element of the data array.

Example

The following example creates two arrays, and assigns values to their elements.

#include "splashkit.h"

int main()
{
    int data[4];

    data[0] = 10;
    data[1] = 72;
    data[2] = -1;
    data[3] = 0;

    point_2d points[3];

    points[0] = point_at(0, 0);
    points[1] = point_at(0.4, -10.1);
    points[2] = point_at(-1, 8.7);
}