Question

Following this nice example I found, I was trying to create a function that dynamically generates a 2D grid (two dimensional array) of int values.

It works fairly well the first couple of times you change the values but if crashes after that. I guess the part where memory is freed doesn’t work as it should.

void testApp::generate2DGrid() {
    int i, j = 0;

    // Delete previous 2D array
    // (happens when previous value for cols and rows is 0)
    if((numRowsPrev != 0) && (numColumnsPrev != 0)) {
        for (i = 0; i < numRowsPrev; i++) {
            delete [ ] Arr2D[i];
        }
    }

    // Create a 2D array
    Arr2D = new int * [numColumns];
    for (i = 0; i < numColumns; i++) {
        Arr2D[i] = new int[numRows];
    }

    // Assign a random values
    for (i=0; i<numRows; i++) {
        for (j = 0; j < numColumns; j++) {
            Arr2D[i][j] = ofRandom(0, 10);
        }
    }

    // Update previous value with new one
    numRowsPrev = numRows;
    numColumnsPrev = numColumns;
}

Answer 1

2-dim array in C++ with no memory issues:

#include <vector>

typedef std::vector<int> Array;
typedef std::vector<Array> TwoDArray;

Usage:

TwoDArray Arr2D; 

// Add rows
for (int i = 0; i < numRows; ++i) {
    Arr2D.push_back(Array());
}

// Fill in test data
for (int i = 0; i < numRows; i++) {    
    for (int j = 0; j < numCols; j++) {
        Arr2D[i].push_back(ofRandom(0, 10));           
    }
}

// Make sure the data is there
for (int i = 0; i < numRows; i++) {    
    for (int j = 0; j < numCols; j++) {
        std::cout << Arr2D[i][j] << ' ';
    }
std::cout << '\n';
}