deleting new operator memory

[jjordan33]

Hi, I have a zybooks online assignment and I'm having trouble doing what it's asking me to do.
It wants the allocated memory in kitchenPaint deleted, but something I'm doing is wrong. I feel like my solution looks like the topic about deletion though, so I'm confused.

  #include <iostream>
using namespace std;

class PaintContainer {
   public:
      ~PaintContainer();
      double gallonPaint;
};

PaintContainer::~PaintContainer() { // Covered in section on Destructors.
   cout << "PaintContainer deallocated." << endl;
}

int main() {
   PaintContainer* kitchenPaint;

   kitchenPaint = new PaintContainer;
   kitchenPaint->gallonPaint = 26.3;

//------------------
delete[] kitchenPaint; // my solution
   /* Your solution goes here  */
//------------------
   return 0;
}

[JLBorges]

Use the non-array form of the delete expression:

// delete[] kitchenPaint; // my solution
delete kitchenPaint;

[jjordan33]

Good grief. I am certain that I read 'not all compilers require the brackets, but even those that don't allow for them'

Yet that was the solution.

It's frustrating.

Thank you though. I can at least move on now.

[Peter87]

delete[] should be used when deleting an array.
delete (without []) should be used when deleting an object that is not an array.