StringArray pointer question

General JUCE discussion
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I’m trying to retrieve an element from a StringArray pointer and having troubles. I’ve searched the juce files for StringArray pointers as examples without much luck.

I get this error:
error C2664: ‘outputDebugString’ : cannot convert parameter 1 from ‘class juce::StringArray’ to 'const class juce::String &'
Reason: cannot convert from ‘class juce::StringArray’ to ‘const class juce::String’

StringArray* array = new StringArray(); String values = "1 2 3 4 5 6"; array->addTokens (values, false); DBG(array[0]);

I’ve found this workaround, but is there a way to directly retrieve an element from a StringArray pointer?

StringArray* array = new StringArray(); String values = "1 2 3 4 5 6"; array->addTokens (values, false); StringArray array2; array2.addArray (*array, 0, 1); DBG (array2[0]);

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Well, you could try either (*array)[0] or array->operator

The operator[] is overloaded for StringArray, not for a pointer to StringArray, so the dereference is necessary.

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why pointer anyway?

I use bags of stringarrays and I’ve never needed to “new” one ever.

only pointers I use these days are audio buffers. and even they have a rapper you can stick on the stack and let jules do the pointer management. oh and Components of corse.

and references are your friend!

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bodisiw,

Thanks for the reply. Those solutions are what I’m looking for. Been a while since I used C++ and pointers are once again confusing.

Regarding Karbon L. Forms comments about [quote]a rapper you can stick on the stack and let jules do the pointer management[/quote]. Does Juce handle pointers for items on the stack which are Juce types?