Thread: strcpy, pointers, and help

I've searched and then read almost every post I could find about these subjects, but just cannot get anywhere on my program.

Code:

list insertAfter (list x, char *s) {
	//Insert a new element containing s after the current element.
	//Make the new node the current node.
	listNodePtr temp = (listNodePtr) malloc(sizeof(listNodePtr));
	char *tempString;

	printf("%d is the length of s\n", strlen(s));
	tempString = malloc(strlen(s) + 1 );

	strcpy(tempString, s);

	printf("we are trying to INSERT:  %s\n", s);

	if (x -> currentNode != NULL && x -> currentNode -> nextNode != NULL) {
		strcpy(temp -> data, tempString);

.....

temp -> data is a char*. I get an error whenever I try to:
strcpy(temp -> data, tempString). I get the idea of what I need to do, I just cannot figure it out for the life of me. Help!

I love the wealth of knowledge on this board. I can't believe my hours of working out that problem was just solved by a function I didn't even know about!

Thank you very much.