Question

If I try to delete a char I get an access violation error.

Heres my code:

int main()
{
    char *myString = new char[32];
    myString = "Hello";
    cout << myString;
    cin.get();

    delete [] myString;
    return 0;
}

Ive also tried

delete myString

but im still get access violation errors

Answer 1

After the line

 myString = "Hello";

the pointer myString no longer points to the array you’ve allocated, but to a string literal. The line

delete [] myString;

then attempts to delete the literal (which results in a crash).

You can copy a string with strcpy, or better yet, use std::string.

std::string myString = "Hello";
cout << myString;