Thread: delete and delete []

What's exactly the difference between delete and delete [] ?

I read that delete [] is used when deleting an array,because it deletes all elements in the array and the array itself

And if i do this ??

Code:

char  c = new char[20];

delete c; // instead of    delete [] c

is it an error ?? compilers never report errors in these cases,but
is the array really being deleted?


I tried also to create an array of pointers to objects and verify that delete []
calls actually the destructors of all objects in the array before
deleting the array itself

In order to do that i put a printf in the class' destructor,but it wasn't displayed

Code:

SomeClass  **objectptr = new SomeClass*[20];

 // create the objects

for(int i = 0;i < 20;i++)
 objectptr[i] = new SomeClass();

//..

delete [] objectptr;  // this doesn't delete the objects...but just
                                // the memory occupied by their pointers

How do you use delete [] ?