can you have an array of vectors

[Donna Bachner]

or an array of array's I think I just solved my problem but can you have an array of vectors?

[Paul Clapham]

Yes, you can. Did you get some error messages when you tried it or what?

[Henry Wong]

You can have an array of Vectors. You can have an array of array of Vectors. You can have a Vector of Vectors. You can have an array of array of Vectors of Vectors of array of array of Vectors...

Henry
[ March 10, 2006: Message edited by: Henry Wong ]

[Donna Bachner]

When I go to declare the vector I get an error it says it is looking for ]? Here is the code

Vector POI[i] = new Vector();
POI is the array i is the counter. How do I declare the vector?

[Donna Bachner]

thankyou everyone I got it working!!!

[Jeff Albertson]

Originally posted by Henry Wong:
You can have an array of Vectors. You can have an array of array of Vectors. You can have a Vector of Vectors. You can have an array of array of Vectors of Vectors of array of array of Vectors...

What's this?

Vector v = new Vector();
v.add(v);

[ak pillai]

Just a suggestion:

You can have a collection within a collection, But it is not a good coding practice to keep on tossing collections within collections. It makes your code hard to understand. This is analogous to storing items in pigeonholes without any labelling. To store items use value objects or data objects (as oppose to storing every attribute in an ArrayList or HashMap). Provide wrapper classes around your collection API classes like ArrayList, Hashmap etc

[Donna Bachner]

Thank you never used a wrapper class before. What I need to do is create an unlimited amount of "Vectors"(Can be an array) with the vectors being different lengths each time it is run. I tried an array of vectors and ran into problems.

[Keith Lynn]

If you are not sure of the exact number of Vectors that you need, then you can use a dynamic structure like an ArrayList which can grow dynamically. (Also unless you have a compelling reason, you can use an ArrayList instead of a Vector).

[Donna Bachner]

Thanks, I'm working with the arrayList and think it will work.