Accessing a 2D vector using push

I am currently declaring my vector as follows

std::vector<std::vector<int>> test(5, std::vector<int>(2,0));

I then access it like this

    for (int i = 0; i < 5; i  ) {

        std::cin >> test[i][0];
        std::cin >> test[i][1];
    }

` Since the vector is static (5 Rows, with 2 columns), I would like to make it variable (rows variable, column staitc) by using push_back. However, I don't know how to access the individual columns. Maybe someone can help me.

I already tried to access it with test.at(i).at(0) and test.at(i).at(1) but it wont work. Although I found this solution `

#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
using namespace std;
 
int main() {
    std::vector<std::vector<int> >nns;
int i = 5;
nns.push_back(std::vector<int> {i});
for(int i = 0; i <nns.size(); i  )
{
    for(int j = 0; j < nns[i].size(); j  )
    {
        std::cout << nns[i][j] << std::endl;
    }
}
}

` but there you have to define a static size (int i = 5).

CodePudding user response：

You know how to push a vector into the vector of vectors. You wrote this:

nns.push_back(std::vector<int> {i});

You do not have to specifiy the size i here, you can push an empty vector

nns.push_back({});

Now nns has a single element. nns[0] has 0 elements. Pushing elements to nns[0] works exactly the same, just that its elements are not vectors but integers:

nns[0].push_back(42);

If you do that m-times then nn[0] will have m elements. Also resize works on the inner as well as on the outer vectors. For example to get n elements (vectors) each with m elements (integers):

nns.resize(n);
for (int i=0; i<nn.size();   i) nns[0].resize(m);

TL;DR There is nothing special about nested vectors. The outer vectors work exactly the same as the inner vectors. You can construct them with or without elements and you can push elements or resize them.