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<concept id="GUID-D664843A-0741-5E38-88D0-D8BEC9C732EB" xml:lang="en"><title>How

to destroy the array</title><shortdesc>Simple arrays can be simply deleted. Certain arrays of pointers

may require calling a member function to delete the objects pointed to.</shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>

<p>If an array consists of <codeph>T</codeph> or <codeph>R</codeph> type elements,

it can be destroyed by simply deleting it:</p>

<codeblock id="GUID-DD031059-EB7F-5767-95EB-01D9715214DF" xml:space="preserve">delete array;</codeblock>

<p>Where the array is either a <codeph>CArrayPtrFlat</codeph> or <codeph>CArrayPtrSeg</codeph> object

and the elements are pointers to <codeph>CBase</codeph> derived objects, then

these objects should first be destroyed by calling the <codeph>ResetAndDestroy()</codeph> member

function:</p>

<codeblock id="GUID-FAFAE1AE-CCE3-5B5B-95A0-BAC900706C19" xml:space="preserve">array-&gt;ResetAndDestroy();

delete array;</codeblock>

<section id="GUID-16F6086C-6072-447A-BFE5-C3C4869033BF"><title>Notes</title> <ul>

<li id="GUID-84F5B547-631E-5FD5-8C3B-736BEB2A94FB"><p>The <codeph>RArray&lt;class T&gt;</codeph> and <codeph>RPointerArray&lt;class T&gt;</codeph> types

are normally allocated on the program stack and are not deleted. However,

their array buffers <i>are</i> allocated on the heap and it is important that

these arrays are handled correctly to avoid memory leaks.</p> </li>

<li id="GUID-98A2BC12-BEC2-5C29-93A1-51531D5F5063"><p>As a minimum, their <codeph>Close()</codeph> functions

must be called before the arrays go out of scope. Additionally, for the <codeph>RPointerArray&lt;class T&gt;</codeph> type,

the <codeph>ResetAndDestroy()</codeph> function may be called if the objects

represented by the array need to be deleted before the array goes out of scope.</p> </li>

</ul> </section>