Okay well I have a method that adds nodes to my linked list, now this seems to be written the same was that everyone else online writes their linked list, however when my program exits I always get a bunhc of memory leaks from the line in my code where "temp = new SatID;". I have tried many different ways to delete this pointer, however the program always crashes if I do. Can you guys tell me why no one else seems to have to delete this pointer, and yet I keep getting error msgs??? Thanks for the help, void CEmailDownloaderDlg::OnCheckAndAdd() { // THIS SECTION IS FOR GETTING RESULTS FROM THE DATABASE //////////// MYSQL_RES *result; MYSQL_ROW row; unsigned int num_fields; char * qry = new char[300]; //SELECT CONCAT(last_name,', ',first_name) AS full_name FROM mytable ORDER BY full_name; sprintf(qry, "SELECT SatelliteID, SatEmail from satellite"); //int slt = mysql_query(conn33,qry); if (mysql_query(conn33, qry)) { //Error querry didn't complete return; } else { // query succeeded, process any data returned by it result = mysql_store_result(conn33); if (!result) {// there are no rows //error return; } num_fields = mysql_num_fields(result); while ((row = mysql_fetch_row(result))) { SatID * temp; SatID * temp2; unsigned long *lengths; lengths = mysql_fetch_lengths(result); for(int i = 0; i < (int)num_fields; i++) { sprintf(qry, "[%.*s] ", (int) lengths[i], row[i]); CString mystring = qry; } temp = new SatID; temp->SatelliteID=atoi(row[0]); temp->SatEmail=row[1]; temp->next_SatID=NULL; if (mySatIDs==NULL) { mySatIDs = temp; continue; } temp2=mySatIDs; while (temp2->next_SatID!=NULL) temp2=temp2->next_SatID; temp2->next_SatID=temp; } } delete [] qry; } (BTW - my structure is defined as) struct SatID { int SatelliteID; CString SatEmail; SatID * next_SatID; }; and mySatIDs is originally set to = NULL

I hope i am following your code correctly, if so, in your deconstructor try something like this: SatID *temp; while(MySatIDs != null) {     while(MySatIDs->next_SatID != null)     {         temp = MySatIDs->next_SatID;     }     temp = null;     delete temp; } MySatIDs = null; delete MySatIDs; Chi They mostly come at night...mostly

Chi, thank you very much for the response, that is EXACTLY correct. I kept wondering how I could delete that pointer without it deleting the things it was pointing to...LoL, now I know :) Thanks for the help.

i think there may be an issue actually: SatID *temp; while(MySatIDs != null) { temp = MySatIDs; while(temp->next_SatID != null) { temp = temp->next_SatID; } temp = null; delete temp; } MySatIDs = null; delete MySatIDs; try this. Chi They mostly come at night...mostly