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From: jj5824@leah.Albany.Edu (Dorian Hawkmoon)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Assignment help request
Keywords: lvalue is array
Message-ID: <3016@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: 7 May 90 18:29:23 GMT
Organization: The University at Albany, Computer Services Center
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Hi.  I have an question regarding assignment statements.  I am attempting
to assign a sting (type char *) to a field of a record that has type
array of char.  The problem, as I'm sure everyone knows, is that it
is an illegal assignment since the lvalue is an array.  I can get it to
work by changing the record field to type char *.  However, I am reading
into an array of these records, and when I try to read in the next 
symbol to the next record, the char * field of the previous record is
changed to the value I am trying to assign to the next record.  And
I can't figure out why.  

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Please email asap, and I can 
clarify any points that seem really vague above (as I'm sure most do).

        
Thanks in advance,

Jim Jurista
jj5824@leah.albany.edu