Problems with project

I'm working on this program(project) that parses some kind of messages and came up against two problems.
The first one is how to read data from .vmg file. Every .vmg file keeps data for one object of class Message. So do I first need to encode vmg file to txt and than read data from created txt file?
The second problem is how to create object of class Array, which elements are objects of class Message.
Something like this:

Code:

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class Array {
Message** el; //class Message
public:
//...
}

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So basically how to create an array of pointers to objects(but the size of an array is unknown)?Any suggestions?

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Originally Posted by ghost_rider

So basically how to create an array of pointers to objects(but the size of an array is unknown)?Any suggestions?

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std::vector<Message*>

Why do you need pointers anyway?

I forgot to mention that I can't use std::vector or linked lists, for the same reason I need pointers. This is a school project and they were clear about these conditions. It sucks, but that's the way it is.:)

Right. Then you need a pointer. You need a pointer because you must dynamically allocate the number of elements in your array (which contains pointers).
Don't forget that you must call delete [] also.

But how do I initialize object of class Array? I have to put like 1000 objects of class Message into one object of class Array. And also I don't know the number of objects of class Message. It could be 1000 or 10,000.

When you purchase a hard drive, do you know beforehand exactly how much space you need in all the coming years?
What happens when your hard drive fills up? What do you do then (without deleting stuff)?
What does this have to do with the problem at hand? I think that if you think about it a while, it will make sense. It's all about logic.

To create an Array object, you can do either:

Array obj;

or

Array* myobj = new Array;
//...
delete myobj;

And if you need N new Arrays, you can do

Array* myobj = new Array[N];
//...
delete [] myobj;