Hey i want to load in my games map from a text file, its an old text rpg. Anyway, i planed to hold the map size at the top of the file but I can''t figure out how to set an array to a variable size, ie the mapsize thats carried in the variable at the top of the file. Any help will be greatly appreciated Cheers. Armed and Hammered

Simple way:
Assuming you ant an array of ints...
int* GameMap = (int*)malloc(sizeof(int) * MAP_SIZE_X * MAP_SIZE_Y);

Don''t forget to free it when you''re done (look up free, delete, as well as new and malloc (already mentions)). Dynamic Allocation is key to programming a lot of things .


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How about

int* gameMap = new int[numberOfColumns * numberOfRows];