What is the difference between subscript and subscripted variable in c plus plus?

Answer 1

Subscripts are used to identify the elements in an array, where the first element has subscript 0. Thus an array of n elements has subscripts in the range 0 to n-1. Each element may itself be an array, thus allowing multi-dimensional arrays.

The subscript may be a constant or a variable. However, when declaring a static array, the subscript must be a constant. Constants include literal constants as well as named constants.

A subscripted variable is simply an array or a datatype that can be divided into an array. For instance, a 32-bit int can be treated just as if it were an array of two 16-bit shorts or four 1-byte chars.

Thus in the 32-bit int array, int i[10], i is a subscripted variable where i[0] is the first integer and i[9] is the last. If we then say char*c=&i, c would allow us to treat i as if it were a subscripted variable with 40 char elements (c[0] to c[39]).