[ILUG] Hi, just a quick question (again!!)

[Colm Buckley]

> Hi, I have just created a C program that uses structures.  My trouble is
> that whn I define a field in the structure as an array of char for a
> string, I get an error when I try to initialise the value.

Nope.

To *copy* a string from one place to another, use strcpy().  In your
example, conn_inst[0].name should be initialised using:

strcpy(conn_inst[0].name, "Blah Blah Blah");

If your strings were always constants, or pointers to other strings, you
could have declared it as:

struct instrument {
       char *name;
...
};

...

conn_inst[0].name = "Blah Blah Blah";

However, this just sets up conn_inst[0].name to *point* to the constant
string "Blah Blah Blah".  If you're unclear on this, I suggest taking a
close look at the sections of your books which discuss pointers and
arrays.

            Colm

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