What do I need to do before deleting elements in a vector of pointers to dynamically allocated objects?

Question

I have a vector that I fill with pointers to objects. I am trying to learn good memory management, and have a few general questions:

1. Is it true that when I am

Answer 1

Everything you allocate with new you have to delete later on. Objects that you don't explicitly allocate with new shouldn't you delete.

If you don't want to manage the objects manually but want the vector to "own" them, it might be better to store the objects by value instead of storing pointers to them. So instead of std::vector you could use std::vector.