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This is related to some other questions, such as: this , and some of my other questions. In this question , and others, we see we can declare and initialise string arrays in one nice step, for example: const char* const list[] = {"zip", "zam", "bam"}; //from other question This can be done in the implementation of a function with no bother, or in the body of a .cpp file, outside any scope. What I want to do is to have an array like this as as member of a class I am using, something like this: class DataProvider : public SomethingElse { const char* const mStringData[] = {"Name1", "Name2", "Name3", ... "NameX"}; public: DataProvider(); ~DataProvider(); char* GetData() { int index = GetCurrentIndex(); //work out the index based on some other data return mStringData[index]; //error checking and what have you omitted } }; But, the compiler complains and I can't seem to work out why. Is it possible to declare and initialise an array like this in one step in a class definition? Are there alternatives that are better?

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