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[obtuse aspen]

If i assign a element of a particular index to a temp variable, will it create an empty space in the array.

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[cosmic oracle]

that's a pretty vague question

but it is impossible to "create" empty spaces in an array one by one

if you have an array variable, it is either uninitialized (contains no array, and thus has no spaces to initialize), or it is initialized, in which case all the empty spaces are already there

[obtuse aspen]

Can you explain why in insertion sort we assign the element of a index to a variable instead of the index itself. for (int i = 1; i < a.length; i++) {

int c = a[i];
int b = i - 1;

        while (b >= 0 && a[b] >` c`) {

            a[b + 1] = a[b];
            b--;
        }
        a[b + 1] =` c;`
    }
}

[cosmic oracle]

no, because i don't understand what that question means

[obtuse aspen]

ook, btw thx for help

[deep grail]

It doesn't create an empty space.
The space used by the item to insert just gets overwritten.

Which is fine since the overwritten value was saved in variable c