Thread: Deleting Dynamically Allocated Array Members

I have made a program that introduces a class, Inventory, that holds a given number of items introduced by the constructor. Observe:

Code:

class Inventory
{
public:
    Inventory()
    {
        cItems=new Item[defaultSize];
        suiCap=defaultSize;
    }
    Inventory(short unsigned int suiSize)
    {
        cItems=new Item[suiSize];
        suiCap=suiSize;
    }
    ~Inventory()
    {
        delete [] cItems;
    }
    Remove(short unsigned int suiIndex)
    {
        delete cItems[suiIndex];
    }
protected:
    Item* cItems;
    short unsigned int suiCap;
private:
    static short unsigned int siDefaultSize;
};
static int Inventory::siDefaultSize=32;
Inventory myInv(10);

What I am aiming to do is delete an individual member of the array. Is this possible? I have tried to delete it through my "Remove" function but...:

Code:

myInv.Remove(5);

This gives me compiler errors, saying that Item * cannot be converted to void *.

So, any workaround to this?

In C++ you should be using a vector instead of dynamic arrays. The vector class has an erase function that allows you to erase an element at a specific index.

If you decide to keep using C style arrays, then you must manually remove the element at that index from the array either by moving each element up that comes after it, or copying the entire array except for the item to be removed to a new array. You don't want to delete anything because that frees memory allocated by new and the only memory you allocated was the memory for the entire array all at once.

Also, if you don't use vectors, you'll probably need a copy constructor and copy assignment operator for that class.