which delete line is correct?

[rasmidas]

I have a similar kind of code as below. But I could not guess how to delete. Please help me.

#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
int main()
{
        char* items[5];
        int i;
        for(i=0;i<5;i++)
        {
                char* temp = new char[11];
                strcpy(temp,"AB CD EFGH");
                items[i] = temp;
                printf("items is:%u\n",&items[i]);
                printf("strlen of items is:%d\n",strlen(items[i]));
        }
        items[5] = 0;
        char** item_ptr = items;
        while (*item_ptr != 0)
        {
                printf("item_ptr is:%u\n",*item_ptr);
                delete *item_ptr;  //whether this is correct?
                //delete []*item_ptr;      or this is correct?
                item_ptr++;
        }
        return 0;
}
 

Please let me know how to use the delete here. Thanks in advance.

[Darryl]

The second one since you are deleting the result from char* temp = new char[11];

use delete[ ] with new [ ]
and delete with new

however, you didn't need to make char** item_ptr = items;

You could just use items directly

 for(i=0;i<5;i++)
{
     delete[] items[i];
}