From help-request at octave dot org Mon Apr 10 19:46:35 2006
Subject: Re: Vectors of Structures in C++
From: Bill Denney <denney at seas dot upenn dot edu>
To: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
cc: Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso <jordigh at gmail dot com>, help@octave.org
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 20:45:23 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, John W. Eaton wrote:

> It's not clear to me exactly what data structure you are trying to
> create here.  Can you post some Octave code that creates a small
> structure with the key elements that you would like to construct
> using C++?

function retval = TranslateSBML()
   retval.b = "B";
   retval.c = makechildstruct();
endfunction

function retval = GetSubstruct()
   for i = 1:10
     retval(i).d = i;
   endfor
endfunction

The jist of what I'm trying to do is that I want to be able to end up with 
an index like

a.c(1).d

instead of

a.c{1}.d

as I currently get.  I will also be creating sub-...-sub-structures, but I 
assume that will be a straight-up extension of whatever you show me here. 
I will also be needing (in a different function) to read out these 
sub-...-sub-structures.  Is there a good source of documentation on how to 
use the Octave C++ types and classes (the header files seem bare of 
comments)?

I realize that my example C++ code is probably very wrong in a best coding 
practices sense (I'm learning C++ at the same time that I'm trying to 
write this).

Bill

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