Why “delete [][]… multiDimensionalArray;” operator in C++ does not exist

Question

I was always wondering if there is operator for deleting multi dimensional arrays in the standard C++ language.

If we have created a pointer to a single dimensional arra

Answer 1

The reason delete is called multiple times in that example is because new is called multiple times too. Delete must be called for each new.

For example if I allocate 1,000,000 bytes of memory I cannot later delete the entries from 200,000 - 300,00, it was allocated as one whole chunk and must be freed as one whole chunk.