Thread: Cases of empty array

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    Cases of empty array

    I'm confusing about something which I'm struggling with.
    sometimes we put this condition sometimes on arrays: (assume we have pointer to array as arr)
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    if (arr == NULL || arr.length()==0 ) // Base case
     return -1
    so what I'm not understanding is, if arr ==NULL is not saying the size of array 0? I'm totally confused with those two cases , can you please attach example to those two cases? thanks alot alot .


    And in Nodes/binary tree we just say in Base case about nullity
    Code:
    if (root==NULL)
    return 0;
    we are not taking the case of size of the tree is zero .. so why?




    thanks

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    Quote Originally Posted by Salem View Post
    Post code that compiles, not paraphrased gibberish.
    I'm not having specific code, it's something in general

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    An array can't be "empty", meaning it can't have zero elements. (With the exception of the last array in a struct, which I'm going to assume that's not the case here.)

    A pointer can be null, which means it doesn't point to anything.

    In the case of a tree, it depends on exactly how it's implemented, but it's possible that if the root pointer is null, then the tree is empty. That's a very different thing from an array having a length of zero.

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    As an eternal newbie, you aren't allowed to do manual memory management anyway. Stick to std::array when you need a fixed size array and std::vector when you need a dynamically sized array.

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