c++ array assignment of multiple values

Question

so when you initialize an array, you can assign multiple values to it in one spot:

int array [] = {1,3,34,5,6}

but what if the array is already initialized and I want to completely replace the values of the elements in that array in one line

so

int array [] = {1,3,34,5,6}
array [] = {34,2,4,5,6}

doesn't seem to work...

is there a way to do so?

Answer 1

There is a difference between initialization and assignment. What you want to do is not initialization, but assignment. But such assignment to array is not possible in C++.

Here is what you can do:

#include <algorithm>

int array [] = {1,3,34,5,6};
int newarr [] = {34,2,4,5,6};
std::copy(newarr, newarr + 5, array);

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However, in C++0x, you can do this:

std::vector<int> array = {1,3,34,5,6};
array = {34,2,4,5,6};

Of course, if you choose to use std::vector instead of raw array.