how to setup cstring arrays?

[MacG]

What would be the better way to set up an cstring array; Method 1 or Method 2?

Method 1:

char **stringarray;

stringarray = new char*[stringcount];
for (int i=0; i < stringcount; i++){
	stringarray[i] = new char[STRING_MAX_LENGTH];
	memset(stringarray[i], 0, STRING_MAX_LENGTH);
}

or simply Method 2:

char stringarray[stringcount][STRING_MAX_LENGTH];

Currently I'm using Method 1, 'cause I know that I can set the memory free like this:

for (int i = 0; i < tokencount; i++){
	delete [] stringarray[i];
}
delete [] stringarray;

Can I free memory like this for Method 2 as well or do I have to fear to fumble into memory not allocated?

I ask because doing Method 2 and deleting with the presented loop I got a compiler warning

warning: deleting array char stringarray[((unsigned int)((int)tokencount))][1024]

. So far my program did work, but I expirienced that I could compile and run programs that should fail, just by pure luck.

[helios]

Method 1 will always work if stringcount is a variable regardless of compiler. GCC allows creating arrays of variable size in the stack, but this is not standard, AFAIK.
As far as I can tell, your deletion snippet works if tokencount==stringcount.