User defined arrays?

[AnubisProgrammer]

I'm writing a program for class, and I'm trying to make an array, but the array has to be defined by the user. So I tried making it like this:

int array[n]

then defined "n" later in a user input. Apparently that doesn't work. I get three errors:

error C2057: expected constant expression
error C2466: cannot allocate an array of constant size 0
error C2133: 'number' : unknown size

How can I make it so the user defines the size of the array?

[md]

you can do it rather easily with malloc/new (depending on C/C++). But seeing as dynamic memory allocation is usually not taught at all; or if it is not until the very end of the year I'm guessing this is one of those cases where you are given a maximum size of some kind. That was you can just declate the really big array and have another varaible to keep track of the upper bound.

[wtd]

c++:

int array_size; cout << "Max array size? "; cout.flush(); cin >> array_size; int *array = new int[array_size]; // do something with array // and then when you're done... delete [] array;

[AnubisProgrammer]

Yup yup, that worked nicely. Thanks!