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description: "Learn more about: <array>"
title: "<array>"
ms.date: "11/04/2016"
f1_keywords: ["<array>"]
helpviewer_keywords: ["array header"]
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# `<array>`

Defines the container class template **array** and several supporting templates.

## Requirements

**Header:** \<array>

**Namespace:** std

> [!NOTE]
> The \<array> library also uses the `#include <initializer_list>` statement.

## Members

### Classes

|Name|Description|
|-|-|
|[array](../standard-library/array-class-stl.md)|Stores a fixed-length sequence of elements.|
|[tuple_element](../standard-library/tuple-element-class-tuple.md)|Wraps the type of an array element.|
|[tuple_size](../standard-library/tuple-size-class-tuple.md)|Wraps the size of an array element.|

### Operators

|Name|Description|
|-|-|
|[operator==](../standard-library/array-operators.md#op_eq_eq)|array comparison, equal|
|[operator!=](../standard-library/array-operators.md#op_neq)|array comparison, not equal|
|[operator\<](../standard-library/array-operators.md#op_lt)|array comparison, less than|
|[operator>=](../standard-library/array-operators.md#op_gt_eq)|array comparison, greater than or equal|
|[operator>](../standard-library/array-operators.md#op_gt)|array comparison, greater than|
|[operator<=](../standard-library/array-operators.md#op_lt_eq)|array comparison, less than or equal|

### Functions

|Name|Description|
|-|-|
|[get](../standard-library/array-functions.md#get)|Get specified array element.|
|[swap](../standard-library/array-functions.md#swap)|Exchanges the contents of one array with the contents of another array.|

## See also

[\<tuple>](../standard-library/tuple.md)\
[Header Files Reference](../standard-library/cpp-standard-library-header-files.md)