multidimensional character array question

[barramundi9]

Dear all:

I have a structure that goes that this:

typedef struct someStruct {
        char name[30];
        int number;
} someStruct_t;

Then in main(), I declare an array of structures:

someStruct_t structures[3];

and I declare an array of names:

char names[3][30] = { "Mary", "John", "Lily" };

When I tried to assign the structure member "name" to the first string of "names" like the following:

structures[0].name = names[0];

It tells me that "incompatible types when assigning to type ‘char[30]’ from type ‘char *’"

But I thought they are both addresses, the value of structures[0].name should be able to be assigned the value of names[0], what did I do wrong?

Any help is appreciated, thanks

barramundi9

[TomasRiker]

Arrays can't be assigned.
You have to use strcpy (in C) or std::string (C++).

[barramundi9]

Got it working, thanks so much, TomasRiker.

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Could I ask if you already have an array with all the names in it, why did you not choose to declare "char name[30]" as a pointer and have it point to the names in the array?