I have a structure like: struct Header { vector foo; vector bar; }; I have created an array of above structure: Header *ptr = new Header[1000]; Now doing serialization/deserialization works fine with binary_oarchive. But, in some situation, I want to just deserialize particular element of array(say element at index 80). Is it possible using binary archive ? I have a work around of writing each element one by one & while de-serialization, ignore irrelevant data(in our case index 0-79) & then use proper data. But it is not optimum solution. I even tried xml archive with name as index & value as binary object by using make_binary_object. Doing something like: for(int i = 0 ; i<1000; i++) { stringstream ss ; ss << i; ar << make_nvp(ss.str().c_str(), make_binary_object(&ptr[i], 1)) ; } And deserializing 80th index object like: ar >> make_nvp("80", make_binary_object(&ptr[80], 1)) ; Program compiles fine, but result is inconsistent. Please suggest is there any better way to read(deserialize) just one element of an array. -- View this message in context: http://boost.2283326.n4.nabble.com/Seeking-to-particular-array-element-while... Sent from the Boost - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.