[aclug-L] Re: Simple C question (which shows my C ignorance)

[John Reinke <jmreinke@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not sure I follow what you are doing, but if you used malloc to declare
the array, and want to shorten the array by one, shift everything down, and
do a realloc reflecting the new size of the array.

(I assume you didn't need this help for a programming class.  ;-)

John

>I need to delete a member of an array of structure pointers and have the
>new situation reflected minus the one removed. Can I just do
>free(array1[i]), then decrement the index counter, or do I need to shift
>everything down? The members were allocated with malloc, and I'm lost.
>Any ideas?
>
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