I'm having problems creating a slice of a multi_array in a dimension-independent manner. Could someone please help? The code posted here gives me the error no match for 'operator[]' in 'rn2t[indices]' Some explanations to the code snippet below: My class is templated over an unsigned int Dim. rn2t is a tensor of rank Dim+2 with real-valued elements. bin_index is of dimension Dim+1, and contains integer indices into a tensor. I want my_slice to be the one-dimensional vector pointed to by bin_index. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // Convenience typedefs for multi-rank arrays: typedef typename boost::multi_array<double, Dim+2> Real_N2_Tensor; typedef boost::array<typename Real_N2_Tensor::index, Dim+2> Real_N2_Tensor_Index; typedef typename boost::multi_array<Positive, Dim+1> Positive_N1_Tensor; typedef boost::array<typename Positive_N1_Tensor::index, Dim+1> Positive_N1_Tensor_Index; //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// template<int Dim> void My_Class<Dim>::calc( Positive_N1_Tensor_Index bin_index, bool add ) { Real_N2_Tensor rn2t; // populate rn2t... // snip... typedef typename Real_N2_Tensor::index_range Range; typename Real_N2_Tensor::index_gen indices; // Is the following lines the correct way to populate 'indices'? indices[bin_index[0]]; for (int a = 0; a < Dim; ++a) indices[bin_index[a+1]]; indices[Range()]; typename Real_N2_Tensor::array_view<1>::type my_slice = rn2t[indices]; ///// ERROR HERE // snip... } //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// / martin