Hello, I'm using boost::multi_array for a while and find it very powerful except one point that I cannot specify an array_view's number of dimentions at runtime. But this pity is not the topic of this post. You know one can create an array_view with arbirary given start/bound indices as well as the stride as follows: typedef boost::multi_array array_t; array_t myarray; //... typedef array_t::index_range range_t; typename array_t::array_view::view<2> myview = myarrray[boost::indices[range_t(0, 8, 2)][rang_t()][1]]; As I don't know in the internal of the lib how the dound guarding of iteration is done, either - in the 'standard' STL manner as i!=bound; or - in the 'conventional' C stale as ihttp://space.sina.com.cn/ )