From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: compile error:  char *frame_ptr = new char[20][20] ('X')
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 20:50:53 -0800
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Hades wrote:

> whats the difference between delete blah and delete blah[]
> ...one book i have says to deallocate an array with delete blah
> ...another book mentions delete blah[]
> 
> any help or references to places with help on this subject would
> be appreciated

You're trying to create a double-dimensioned array in one shot.  You can't
do that.  You're also trying to initialize an array of objects with a
non-default constructor.  You also can't do that.

If you want to allocate a two-dimensional array, you need to do it in two
passes, just like in C:

    char **pp = new char *[20];

    for (int i = 0; i < 20; i++)
        pp[i] = new char[20];

If you want to initialize it, you have to do it after the objects have been
allocated:

    for (int i = 0; i < 20; i++)
    for (int j = 0; j < 20; j++)
        pp[i][j] = 'X';

To delete them, you should use

    for (int i = 0; i < 20; i++)
        delete[] pp[i];

    delete[] pp;

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