boost::array of Integers in Qt Creator

boost::array provides C-style array declaration and usage with constant number of items inside it. When only static-constant sized arrays are required, then boost::array comes with a better memory management solution than std::vector.

After including boost libraries into a Qt Creator C++ project, it becomes easy to use boost::array type of members in your programs.

boost/array.hpp file contains boost::array type.

As the boost::array documentation indicates boost::array is the STL compliant container wrapper for arrays of constant size.

Following sample project created by qt creator and contains following files:
1- BoostArrayOfIntegers.pro
2- main.cpp

BoostArrayOfIntegers.pro file contains project configuration.

TEMPLATE = app
CONFIG += console

SOURCES += main.cpp

INCLUDEPATH += /home/tufan/boost_1_55_0

I have installed the boost library to the directory         :  /home/tufan/boost_1_55_0
and boost/array.hpp file is located at                           :  /home/tufan/boost_1_55_0/boost/array.hpp

so qt creator does not complain about path related errors.

There is also another installed boost library which contains an older version of boost libraries  at directory : /usr/include/boost

In BoostArrayOfIntegers.pro file I have stated that I will use the boost library from specific location and qt creator selected the library from : /home/tufan/boost_1_55_0

main.cpp file contains main method.

#include <boost/array.hpp>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    typedef boost::array<int, 4> intArrayType;
    intArrayType myArray = {{1,2,3,4}};
    std::cout << "boost intArray content :" << "\n";
    for( intArrayType::const_iterator iterator = myArray.begin(),
         iteratorEnd = myArray.end();
         iterator != iteratorEnd; ++iterator )
    {
        cout << *iterator << endl;
    }

    return 0;
}

boost::array is initialized with 4 integer members in curly braces. I used an iterator to traverse the integer members of the boost::array.

When the project is executed the following terminal output is generated :

boost intArray content :
1
2
3
4