Compacting arrays.

[Bgreen7887]

Hey guys im workin on a problem to remove a cd from an array of cd's and shift the array to fill in gaps.I have no idea how to go about doing it.

[curmudgeon]

If you are allowed by the assignment requirements, don't use an array but rather an ArrayList. It's built for just this sort of thing.

[Bgreen7887]

Yea i actually need to just add a "remove method" to one of Cd collection classes in the book. Dont no what to do.

[pbrockway2]

In very general terms you would get the index of the CD in the collection then, starting from the next position in the array copy each element one place towards the start. Think about what you would do when you reach the end of the array.

      to delete == arr[4]
         |
         v
A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H

A  B  C  E  E  F  G  H   copy arr[5]->arr[4]
A  B  C  E  F  F  G  H   [6]->[5]
A  B  C  E  F  G  H  H   [7]->[6]
A  B  C  E  F  G  H  ?   ?

Bear in mind that we don't have this book so it's rather hard to give more than very general advice without seeing some code (and preferably your attempt: either of the previous paragraph or something you can come up with.)