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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Char * and char[]
Message-ID: <1569@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
From: jtgorman@cs.arizona.edu (J. Taggart Gorman)
Date: 14 Jun 91 08:09:04 GMT
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
Keywords: pointers, arrays
Lines: 28


  This is not a true Macintosh question, but I am posting it here because I
know someone in this group will know, and besides, I have to ask this question
because programming the Mac in C and using strings is enuf to drive one mad.

  This question deals with character arrays and pointers.  In one of my data
structures, I declare :
  char  name[30];

Later, I declare :
  char *cp;

and assign :
  cp = "\pNo Name";

Now, I try to somehow assign cp to name.  I tried :
  theDecker.name = strcpy(cp, theDecker.name);

and also
  theDecker.name = cp;

  THINK C complains of an illegal op. on an array.

  How the heck do I get a string constant into a character array???

|      J. Taggart Gorman Jr.     | "I'm a no rust build up man myself."
|                                |          -Christian Slater
| jtgorman@caslon.cs.arizona.edu |             in 'Heathers'