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Top Forums Programming Calling an array of arrays in C. Post 303023116 by apmcd47 on Wednesday 12th of September 2018 06:38:43 AM
Old 09-12-2018
The C programming language was not really designed with multi-dimensional arrays in mind. C sort of works with 2D arrays, but remember that they are either arrays of arrays or arrays of pointers to arrays. Get this wrong, and you will get lots of errors, or worse, segmentation faults.

3D arrays are a nightmare! Don't do it in C! Use a language better suited to multi-dimensional arrays, or an OO language with a tried-and-tested multi-dimensional array class. If you have to use C, don't use 3D arrays - emulate them instead!
Code:
typedef struct arr_str{
     int *arr;  /* pointer to array */
     int xDim; /* size of X dimension */ 
     int yDim; /* size of Y dimension */
     int zDim; /* size of Z dimension */
} threeDeeArr, *threeDeeArrPtr;

int getIndex(threeDeeArrPtr array, int x, int y, int z)
{
   int index;
   index = x * array.xDim;
   index = (index + y) * array.yDim;
   return index + z;
}

int getFromIndex(threeDeeArrPtr array, int x, int y, int z)
{
   return array->arr[getIndex(array, x, y, z)];
}

void putAtIndex(threeDeeArrPtr array, int x, int y, int z, int val)
{
   array->arr[getIndex(array, x, y, z)] = val;
}

my calculations of a 3D array are probably off, you will have to test that I got it right. The above code does not include the initialisation or destruction "methods" required before you can actually use this struct in anger. Once the indexing is correctly calculated the above struct will be much easier to use in C than proper 3D arrays.

Andrew
 

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ARRAY_MAP(3)								 1							      ARRAY_MAP(3)

array_map - Applies the callback to the elements of the given arrays

SYNOPSIS
array array_map (callable $callback, array $array1, [array $...]) DESCRIPTION
array_map(3) returns an array containing all the elements of $array1 after applying the $callback function to each one. The number of parameters that the $callback function accepts should match the number of arrays passed to the array_map(3) PARAMETERS
o $callback - Callback function to run for each element in each array. o $array1 - An array to run through the $callback function. o $... - Variable list of array arguments to run through the $callback function. RETURN VALUES
Returns an array containing all the elements of $array1 after applying the $callback function to each one. EXAMPLES
Example #1 array_map(3) example <?php function cube($n) { return($n * $n * $n); } $a = array(1, 2, 3, 4, 5); $b = array_map("cube", $a); print_r($b); ?> This makes $b have: Array ( [0] => 1 [1] => 8 [2] => 27 [3] => 64 [4] => 125 ) Example #2 array_map(3) using a lambda function (as of PHP 5.3.0) <?php $func = function($value) { return $value * 2; }; print_r(array_map($func, range(1, 5))); ?> Array ( [0] => 2 [1] => 4 [2] => 6 [3] => 8 [4] => 10 ) Example #3 array_map(3) - using more arrays <?php function show_Spanish($n, $m) { return("The number $n is called $m in Spanish"); } function map_Spanish($n, $m) { return(array($n => $m)); } $a = array(1, 2, 3, 4, 5); $b = array("uno", "dos", "tres", "cuatro", "cinco"); $c = array_map("show_Spanish", $a, $b); print_r($c); $d = array_map("map_Spanish", $a , $b); print_r($d); ?> The above example will output: // printout of $c Array ( [0] => The number 1 is called uno in Spanish [1] => The number 2 is called dos in Spanish [2] => The number 3 is called tres in Spanish [3] => The number 4 is called cuatro in Spanish [4] => The number 5 is called cinco in Spanish ) // printout of $d Array ( [0] => Array ( [1] => uno ) [1] => Array ( [2] => dos ) [2] => Array ( [3] => tres ) [3] => Array ( [4] => cuatro ) [4] => Array ( [5] => cinco ) ) Usually when using two or more arrays, they should be of equal length because the callback function is applied in parallel to the corre- sponding elements. If the arrays are of unequal length, shorter ones will be extended with empty elements to match the length of the long- est. An interesting use of this function is to construct an array of arrays, which can be easily performed by using NULL as the name of the callback function Example #4 Creating an array of arrays <?php $a = array(1, 2, 3, 4, 5); $b = array("one", "two", "three", "four", "five"); $c = array("uno", "dos", "tres", "cuatro", "cinco"); $d = array_map(null, $a, $b, $c); print_r($d); ?> The above example will output: Array ( [0] => Array ( [0] => 1 [1] => one [2] => uno ) [1] => Array ( [0] => 2 [1] => two [2] => dos ) [2] => Array ( [0] => 3 [1] => three [2] => tres ) [3] => Array ( [0] => 4 [1] => four [2] => cuatro ) [4] => Array ( [0] => 5 [1] => five [2] => cinco ) ) If the array argument contains string keys then the returned array will contain string keys if and only if exactly one array is passed. If more than one argument is passed then the returned array always has integer keys. Example #5 array_map(3) - with string keys <?php $arr = array("stringkey" => "value"); function cb1($a) { return array ($a); } function cb2($a, $b) { return array ($a, $b); } var_dump(array_map("cb1", $arr)); var_dump(array_map("cb2", $arr, $arr)); var_dump(array_map(null, $arr)); var_dump(array_map(null, $arr, $arr)); ?> The above example will output: array(1) { ["stringkey"]=> array(1) { [0]=> string(5) "value" } } array(1) { [0]=> array(2) { [0]=> string(5) "value" [1]=> string(5) "value" } } array(1) { ["stringkey"]=> string(5) "value" } array(1) { [0]=> array(2) { [0]=> string(5) "value" [1]=> string(5) "value" } } SEE ALSO
array_filter(3), array_reduce(3), array_walk(3), information about the callback type. PHP Documentation Group ARRAY_MAP(3)
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