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From: Ron Natalie
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 20:41

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John Harrison wrote:

>     int num_of_accounts;
>     BankAccount the_accounts[100];
>
> You see? The BankDB object holds (upto) 100 BankAccount objects. This is how
> BankDb 'calls' an instance of BankAccount. E.g.

No, BankDB holds exactly 100 BankAccount objects, not upto.
If you want a dynamic number try:
	vector<BankAccount> the_accounts;

> This approach has the limitation that you can only have a maximum of 100
> account in BankDB, there are various ways around that but at your level of
> skill I'd stick with that for now.

At his skill level, he should be learning to use the standard containers
rather than screwing around with the suboptimal array type in C++.  I
recommend Koenig and Moo's Accelerated C++ as a text that teaches you
the good habits first, rather than propagating C ugliness into C++.

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