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From: [e-mail] (Mike McCarty)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: COLLEGE PROFESSORS! #2
Date: 18 Apr 1996 20:36:59 GMT
Organization: DSC Communications Corporation
Message-ID: <4l695b$[e-mail]>
References: <[e-mail]>
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In article <[e-mail]>,
DAVID MOHORN <[e-mail]> wrote:
)For those who may have found my previous message entertaining to
)read--and totally absurd--here another from last week.
)
)We have a program that reads a sequential file (50 items or so) and
)placed these items in an array.  Items can be added and deleted from the
)array.  There is only one catch, however.  If you delete an item, it
)really doesn't get deleted.
)
)This is the instructors way of deleting an item from an array:
)
)declare main_array variable for 50 elements
)declare del_array variable for 50 elements

An array is -not- a reasonable data structure to use when elements may
need to be added/deleted. A linked list makes more sense. The rest of
the article is, therefore, cut, since I think that -none- of the
solutions using arrays makes any sense.

Mike

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