Delete instance of a class array

[wbeasl]

I have a created the following class instances of Doctor called "room" but I am not sure how to delete them, one at a time.

const short maxRooms = 6;
Doctor *room = new Doctor [maxRooms];


delete room[0];    // Does not work?
delete room[1];

Suggestions?

[matsp]

If you allocate all doctors as a group, then you need to delete them in one group too.

If you want to delete them independently, then you need to do a loop that iterates for maxrooms steps over new Doctor.

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Mats

[wbeasl]

I tried:

for (int x = 0; x < maxRooms; x++)
   Delete room[x];

It will not even compile.

[laserlight]

More like:

delete[] room;

[matsp]

not even if you spell "delete" with a lower-case?

If so, what's the error message(s)?

And you of course need the corresponding loop around "new", yes?

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Mats

[wbeasl]

Well, I cannot test it now but I will check on the first suggestion tonight and report back if it does not work, with the error message

[matsp]

Right, Laserlight is suggesting the correct solution for deleting an array of objects. My suggestion is for when you want to delete a single element individually.

I should of course have suggested that you should use "delete [] " to delete the array if that's what you want to do.

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Mats