Thread: Char To String & Save In Array.

I am currently taking data from a database that is in the form of char data and attempting to convert to a string and then saving in a char array. It appears that these strings have to be saved in a two dimension array. The first array or inner array containing each element of the date in the form of chars. The outer array then contains each record or occurance of the date. Can someone help me in copying the string data into the array? Listed below is what I have so far.

Code:

char Date1[10] = {};
vFieldDate      = rec->Fields->GetItem("Date")->Value;


for(int r = 0; r < 1; r++)
	{
	for(int c = 0; c < 10; c++)
	       {
	       strcpy (Date1,vFieldDate);
	       strcpy (Date[r][c],Date1[10]);
	       printf ("%s",Date[r][c]);
	       }
	}

What's the point copying the data twice?

Code:

strcpy (Date1,vFieldDate);
strcpy (Date[r][c],Date1[10]);

The program needs to compare dates also in case of duplicates.

Second version of strcpy is not necessary.

Code:

char Date1[10] = {};

I don't think it's standard C.
Even with gcc C99 -pedantic gives:
warning: ISO C forbids empty initializer braces

Did you notice the line
// convert_from_wchar_t.cpp
C++

Bayint Naung,

Yes, I did note it and successfully converted with this conversion as well. Is this a better conversion?

I don't know fully what you're doing, but a database is likely to keep "strings" as char's, and not as strings. (That is, the char's are not null terminated to elevate them to string status, within the data). Instead, the database program will add the '\0' char to the data, if and when it's needed for it's operations. That saves a database a bit of space.

Are the record fields variable, or fixed in their length? Which format do you want to use for your final field and record type? That's critical to know, IMO.

Char to String & Save In Array. - Dev Shed
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