If I want to append a number to an array initialized to int, how can I do that?
int arr[10] = {0, 5, 3, 64};
arr[] += 5; //Is this it?, it's not working for me...
I want {0,5, 3, 64, 5} in the end.
I'm used to Python, and in Python there is a function called list.append that appends an element to the list automatically for you. Does such function exist in C?
int arr[10] = {0, 5, 3, 64};
arr[4] = 5;
EDIT: So I was asked to explain what's happening when you do:
int arr[10] = {0, 5, 3, 64};
you create an array with 10 elements and you allocate values for the first 4 elements of the array.
Also keep in mind that arr starts at index arr[0] and ends at index arr[9] - 10 elements
arr[0] has value 0;
arr[1] has value 5;
arr[2] has value 3;
arr[3] has value 64;
after that the array contains garbage values / zeroes because you didn't allocated any other values
But you could still allocate 6 more values so when you do
arr[4] = 5;
you allocate the value 5 to the fifth element of the array.
You could do this until you allocate values for the last index of the arr that is arr[9];
Sorry if my explanation is choppy, but I have never been good at explaining things.
You can have a counter (freePosition), which will track the next free place in an array of size n.
There are only two ways to put a value into an array, and one is just syntactic sugar for the other:
a[i] = v;
*(a+i) = v;
Thus, to put something as the 4th element, you don't have any choice but arr[4] = 5. However, it should fail in your code, because the array is only allocated for 4 elements.
If you have a code like
int arr[10] = {0, 5, 3, 64}; , and you want to append or add a value to next index, you can simply add it by typing a[5] = 5.
The main advantage of doing it like this is you can add or append a value to an any index not required to be continued one, like if I want to append the value 8 to index 9, I can do it by the above concept prior to filling up before indices.
But in python by using list.append() you can do it by continued indices.
Short answer is: You don't have any choice other than:
arr[4] = 5;
