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bl00dninja · Apr 26th, 2005, 12:53 AM

this is one of those cases when you want to use malloc(C) or new(C++) to allocate your memory dynamically. this way, when you have LESS than 1000, you're not wasting any space. however, this gets more into pointers and the like so i would suggest doing what stalin said and test for your "fullness" condition BEFORE adding data to the array.

i'm a little drunk right now so "beer" with me...this might do it, but i'm not sure

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if (note[999] != NULL)
    {
         cout<<"too much data!"<<endl;
         //<--now do something here to skip it, exit, whatever
    }

Apr 26th, 2005, 12:53 AM	#5
bl00dninja Programming Guru Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: namespace std Posts: 1,246 Rep Power: 5	this is one of those cases when you want to use malloc(C) or new(C++) to allocate your memory dynamically. this way, when you have LESS than 1000, you're not wasting any space. however, this gets more into pointers and the like so i would suggest doing what stalin said and test for your "fullness" condition BEFORE adding data to the array. i'm a little drunk right now so "beer" with me...this might do it, but i'm not sure (Toggle Plain Text) if (note[999] != NULL) { cout<<"too much data!"<<endl; //<--now do something here to skip it, exit, whatever } if (note[999] != NULL) { cout<<"too much data!"<<endl; //<--now do something here to skip it, exit, whatever } __________________ i put on my robe and wizard hat... Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates?...Morons. Last edited by bl00dninja; Apr 26th, 2005 at 12:58 AM.