How to put a strtok into a char[]

[DaNxTh3xMaNx]

OK so I have a struct:

struct person{
       int arrivaltime;
       char name[NAME_LEN];
       int num_items;
       };

I have used fgets to get a line that looks like '1500 ALAN 7'

Then I used strtok with space as delimiter. I originally had the name as char* name. The strtok worked with that but I was having a problem that when I went back to view values of previous people i would get either the most recent persons name entered or nothing.

(i.e. If i input 1500 ALAN 7 then 2000 BOB 15 and tried to print alan's info id get
1500 BOB 7

So I'm pretty sure doing char name[] will fix that but I cant get this line working:

people[j].name = strtok(NULL, " ");

It's throwing an incompatible types in assignment. How to I fix it to put the strtok as the correct type?

[cas]

You need to copy the string; you can't assign to an array. strcpy() will work as long as you know that there's enough space in the target. You can be sure there is if you never tokenize a string longer than NAME_LEN bytes long.

[ssharish2005]

I would go along like this and try avoid using strtok.

struct person{
       int arrivaltime;
       char name[NAME_LEN];
       int num_items;
       };


char User[80];

fgets( User, sizeof(User), stdin);
sscanf( User, "%d %s %d", &people[i].arrivaltime, people[i].name, &people[i].num_items );

ssharish