Deleting Data within a Structure or class

My apologies for no code. I have a question that I could not seem to find the answer to.

I currently have a program that enters data from the Keyboard into a structure. If I wanted to delete records once they were entered into the structure:

1) How would this be accomplished?
Search the structure using the name or other unique field, than
tell the program to delete that record EXAMPLE: car[i] ???

2) or would this type of problem be better suited if a class was used instead of a structure? If so how?

Thanks for any help / comments. I am new to C++ so if you chose to get fancy and impress me please explain what you are doing and how it works.

I know thats asking for a lot, but many thanks in advance,

Alan

Good to see a fellow Texan! Anyway, you should probably either
1) create your structures within a local scope and instead of worrying about it, let the variables destroy themselves as they leave that scope. You can accomplish this by simply putting a pair of { } around the routine in question. Otherwise, except that you can resize arrays with some compilers, deleting an element in the middle of an array is iffy, since you might access the deleted element by accident and so this is not recommended. Thus, a linked list is better and more stable for the job, albeit more difficult to work with. As important as the linked list is, I would recommend that you master them now, though.

There is no real benefit to using a class as opposed to a normal structure for this. Actually, in C++, the only difference between a 'class' and a 'struct' is that by default, all 'class' data members are private, and vise versa for structs(public by default).
That's the ONLY difference!

Good luck!