How do you delete a pointer without deleting the data the pointer points to?

Question

I have a pointer that points to an array and another pointer referencing the same array. How do i delete any one of those pointers without killing the array such that the second undeleted pointer still works?

for example:

int* pointer1 = new int [1000];
int* pointer2;
pointer2 = pointer1;

Now i want to get rid of pointer1, how would i do it such that i can continue to access the array normaly through pointer2?

Answer 1

Those pointers are on the stack; you don't have to delete them. Just ignore pointer1 and it will go away at the end of the block.

Answer 2

Let it go out of scope?

You don't 'delete' pointers, you delete what they point at. So if you just want to get rid of the variable 'pointer1' the only way to do that is for the scope it was created in to be terminated.