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Jeff Szuhay is the principal developer at QuarterTil2 which specializes in graphics-rich software chronographs for desktop environments. In his software career of over 35 years, he has engaged in a full range of development activities from systems analysis and systems performance tuning to application design, from initial development through full testing and final delivery. Throughout that time, he has taught computer applications and programming languages at various educational levels from elementary school students to university students, as well as developed and presented professional, on-site training.
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Declaring and initializing multi-dimensional arrays of various dimensions

With a firm, conceptual grasp of multi-dimensional arrays, we can now explore the C syntax for declaring them. As we move from two to more dimensions, we will continue to use array1D, array2D, array3D, and array4D to match the previous section. As each array is declared, pay particular attention to the order in which the array indices appear in each definition. In general, the highest-order dimension appears at the leftmost side and the lowest-order dimension (in our example, array1D) appears in the rightmost position.

Before we begin, we'll define some size constants, as follows:

enum {
  size1D = 5,
  size2D = 4,
  size3D = 3,
  size4D = 7
};

In each of our declarations, we could simply use literal numbers to specify each dimension's size. Instead, we'll use the size1D, size2D, size3D, and size4D constants, not just in this section...

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Published in: Aug 2022Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781801078450

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Jeff Szuhay

Jeff Szuhay is the principal developer at QuarterTil2 which specializes in graphics-rich software chronographs for desktop environments. In his software career of over 35 years, he has engaged in a full range of development activities from systems analysis and systems performance tuning to application design, from initial development through full testing and final delivery. Throughout that time, he has taught computer applications and programming languages at various educational levels from elementary school students to university students, as well as developed and presented professional, on-site training.
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