hi, i need to finish my program by sunday night, and its now sat afternoon, but i need serious help! i have an array to store records, but one of the options i wanted to include was to delete one of the records in the array. The prblem is that i dont know how! is there some kind of function, or do i have to type out some code? the only way i couls see past it was to overwrite the next record into the array onto the one that i want to delete. the problem with that is that then i have two records in a row that are identical.

Please help if you can, i'm getting really desperate! either post a reply or email me on imperial_overlord@hotmail.com. Thanks!

mike.

Normally we don't do homework on the forum, but since you've actually shown some effort, I'll give you a hand. Let's say the array is 12 elements long and you want to delete the element at position 5. What you want to do is copy element 6 to element 5, element 7 into element 6, element 8 into element 7 and so on, all the way to the end of the array. To do this, the trick is to use a for, repeat or while loop to do it. I'll give you some pseudo code (assuming index = 5 and arraysize = 12)

{ Shift all the elements by 1 }
for i := index to arraysize - 1 do
array[i] := array[i+1];

array[arraysize] := 0; { Blank out the last element }