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Subject: Re: Array of a Class Type that contains an array where the sizes of the array are not known at compile time.
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On 1/13/2013 5:38 PM, GCRhoads@volcanomail.com wrote:

> In the constructor QHT, I want to allocate to "conf" an array of m Configs
> where each Config contains an array of n "Piece"s.  The values of m and n
> are not known at compile time only at run time.

Two dimensional array?

public class Qht {
   private Piece[][] conf;

   public Qht( int m, int n ) {
     conf = new Piece[m][];
     for( int i = 0; i < m; i++ )  // just wrote "that loop" again
     {
       conf[i] = new Piece[n];
     }
   }
   // rest of class here...
}