----------------------------------- Genisis Thu Jun 15, 2006 8:57 pm how do i delete a part of an array ----------------------------------- dont know how to delete part of an array and one of the options of my program is that the use can choose to delete a record how do i do that? ----------------------------------- Tony Thu Jun 15, 2006 10:59 pm ----------------------------------- Usually the record that needs to be deleted is swaped with the last record in the array, and then cut via reducing array's size by one. ----------------------------------- wtd Fri Jun 16, 2006 6:59 am ----------------------------------- Your best bet if you need to do something like this is to use not an array at all, but rather one of Java's Collection classes. Perhaps ArrayList. ----------------------------------- gsquare567 Fri Jun 16, 2006 1:40 pm ----------------------------------- yeah theres the ArrayList class and also the LinkedList class... they're quite similar but it depends on what you're doing if you want the better choice for you.