Heap corruption detected error in C++ - c++

Question

Here is my code:
#include<iostream>
#include<cstdlib>
using namespace std;
int main() {
int** arr=NULL;
int num=0;
cin >> num;
int* big=NULL;
arr = new int*[num];
for (int i = 0; i < num; i++) {
arr[i] = new int[5];
}
big = new int[num];
for (int i = 0; i < num; i++) {
for (int j = 0; j < 5; j++) {
while (1) {
cin >> arr[i][j];
if (arr[i][j] >= 0 && arr[i][j] < 100)
break;
}
}
}
for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
big[i] = 0;
}
for (int i = 0; i < num; i++) {
for (int j = 0; j < 5; j++) {
if (big[i] < arr[i][j]) {
big[i] = arr[i][j];
}
}
}
for (int i = 0; i < num; i++) {
cout << "Case #" << i + 1 << ": " << big[i] << endl;
}
delete[]big;
for (int i = num-1; i>=0; i--) {
delete[]arr[i];
}
delete[]arr;
return 0;
}
When I run this code, it says that there are heap corruption error (heap corruption detected). I think it means that there are some errors at 'new' or 'delete' parts in my codes, but I cannot find them. I hope someone to answer. Thanks.

Answer 1

Error is here:
big = new int[num];
...
for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
big[i] = 0;
}
So when you have num less than 5 you are writing outside the array.
Anyway you are using C++ so use vector for such tasks.
#include<iostream>
#include<cstdlib>
#include<vector>
using namespace std;
int main() {
vector<vector<int>> arr;
int num=0;
cin >> num;
arr.resize(num, vector<int>(5));
for (auto &row : arr) {
for (auto &cell : row) {
while (1) {
cin >> cell ;
if (cell >= 0 && cell < 100)
break;
}
}
}
vector<int> big(arr.size());
for (int i = 0; i < arr.size(); i++) {
for (auto &cell : arr[i]) {
if (big[i] < cell) {
big[i] = cell;
}
}
}
for (int i = 0; i < num; i++) {
cout << "Case #" << i + 1 << ": " << big[i] << endl;
}
return 0;
}

Answer 2

In many places in your code, you're indexing your big array using indexes from 0 to 5, while the array is allocated using user input, if user input was 4 for example, your code is undefined behavior.
If you're using c++, you shouldn't be manually allocating the arrays, use std::vector instead, it will take care of managing memory for you, so you don't have to new and delete memory yourself.
With std::vector, your code would look somewhat like this.
std::vector<std::vector<int>> arr;
std::vector<int> big;
cin>>num;
arr.resize(num, std::vector<int>(5));
big.resize(5);
You will also be able to use at method to access elements while bound-checking, and size method to get the number of elements of the array.