How to declare an array of strings in C++?

I am trying to iterate over all the elements of a static array of strings in the best possible way. I want to be able to declare it on one line and easily add/remove elements from it without having to keep track of the number. Sounds really simple, doesn't it?

Possible non-solutions:

vector<string> v;
v.push_back("abc");
b.push_back("xyz");

for(int i = 0; i < v.size(); i++)
    cout << v[i] << endl;

Problems - no way to create the vector on one line with a list of strings

Possible non-solution 2:

string list[] = {"abc", "xyz"};

Problems - no way to get the number of strings automatically (that I know of).

There must be an easy way of doing this.

C++ 11 added initialization lists to allow the following syntax:

std::vector<std::string> v = {"Hello", "World"};

Support for this C++ 11 feature was added in at least GCC 4.4 and only in Visual Studio 2013.

You can concisely initialize a vector<string> from a statically-created char* array:

char* strarray[] = {"hey", "sup", "dogg"};
vector<string> strvector(strarray, strarray + 3);

This copies all the strings, by the way, so you use twice the memory. You can use Will Dean's suggestion to replace the magic number 3 here with arraysize(str_array) -- although I remember there being some special case in which that particular version of arraysize might do Something Bad (sorry I can't remember the details immediately). But it very often works correctly.

Also, if you're really gung-ho about the one line thingy, you can define a variadic macro so that a single line such as DEFINE_STR_VEC(strvector, "hi", "there", "everyone"); works.