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    Question declaring a const...

    I'm writing a program that draws a calendar for the month based on info taken from the system clock. In the global declarations I have the following line which always gets a warning when compiled

    const int monthdays[12] = {"31", "28", "31", "30", "31", "30", "31", "31", "30", "31", "30", "31"};

    the warning I keep getting is
    'initializing' : 'const int ' differs in levels of indirection from 'char [3]'

    I don't understand why?!? isn't this just like declaring and initializing an array?

    can someone explain.

    Thanks

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    Re: declaring a const...

    Originally posted by insomniak
    I'm writing a program that draws a calendar for the month based on info taken from the system clock. In the global declarations I have the following line which always gets a warning when compiled

    const int monthdays[12] = {"31", "28", "31", "30", "31", "30", "31", "31", "30", "31", "30", "31"};

    the warning I keep getting is
    'initializing' : 'const int ' differs in levels of indirection from 'char [3]'

    I don't understand why?!? isn't this just like declaring and initializing an array?

    can someone explain.

    Thanks
    try
    Code:
    const int monthdays[12] = {31, 28,31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31,30, 31, 30, 31};
    The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it.

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    OMG i cannot beleive how long I was looking at that. I should have caught that. Thanks.

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