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btrojano@chat.carleton.ca (Bart Trojanowski) writes:

>I desperately need help.  My assignment is due very soon.

This shouldn't be in c.l.c. But since you xposted to C++ as wel...

>What I need to do is allocate memory for the following....
>          float array[x][y];
>but dinamicaly, ie the user specifies how large it must be.

>float = **array; 
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     WHAT?

I think you mean ``float **array;''

>*array = new (float*) [x];
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 +---- OH OH!

     array = new (float*)[x];

>for (a=0;a<x;x++)
>  array[a] = new float [y];

>for (a=0;a<x;x++)
>  delete array[a];
>delete *array;


Since each of array[a] are themselves arrays, this line should read:

       delete[] array[a];

and further:

       delete[] array;

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