As someone who never dealt with freeing memory and so on, I got the task to create a dynamic array of struct and create functions to add or delete array elements. When deleting I have to free the memory which is no longer necessary.
when deleting the 2nd element of an array of the size of 3, I move the 3rd element to the 2nd position and then delete the last one. When deleting the last one, I always get an error... Is there anyone who can find an solution for me?
struct myFriend {
myFriend() {
number=0;
hobbys = new char*[10];
}
int number;
char* name;
char** hobbys;
};
int main() {
myFriend* friendList = new myFriend[10];
myFriend* tempFriend = new myFriend;
tempFriend->number=1;
tempFriend->name = "ABC";
myFriend* tempFriend2 = new myFriend;
tempFriend2->number=2;
tempFriend->name = "XYZ";
myFriend* tempFriend3 = new myFriend;
tempFriend3->number=3;
tempFriend3->name = "123";
friendList[0] = *tempFriend;
friendList[1] = *tempFriend2;
friendList[2] = *tempFriend3;
friendList[1] = friendList[2]; //move 3rd element on 2nd position
delete &(friendList[2]); //and delete 3rd element to free memory
}
std::vectorandstd::stringinstead.newanddeleteit exactly once. You also have to keep track of every pointer returned fromnew []and usedelete[]on that pointer exactly once. Guess why we like vector and string better!