[LC++]declaring and using manipulating global variables

[Julien Patrick Claassen]

Hi!
  My unhappiness. I want to use a global variable for counting up an
array-index. But now all functions that deal with my array have to get it as
a parameter. That makes me unhappy, because most of them, don't even do
something with it directly (they may just pass it along for another
"subfunction" they call. Besides, I thought there was a way to declare a
global variable, that is known everywhere and can be changed everwhere. Being
changed meaning, changing it globally. I simply tried it with something like:

#include <something>
int glob_index;
(functions here using glob_index);
int main()
{
  glob_index = 6;
  change_glob_index(); // being a function that manipulates glob_index
  return 0;
}

  I used some simple output to see the value of glob_index and saw, that it is
only changed locally.
  Is there a - let's say - more elegant way of doing this? Or is my way the
usual?
  Kindest regards
        Julien


Julien Patrick Claassen
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