Thread: Incompatible Pointer Type

I am working on a project where you have an array of structures to keep track of bank records, and you have to be able to do deposits, withdrawls, adding accounts, etc...

Everything was going smoothly until I got to the part where I am coding the withdrawl command. When I go to compile my program, I get the "passing argument 2 of 'strcmp' from incompatible pointer type.

Here's the part thats having the problem:

Code:

fgets(buffer, BUFLEN, file_in);
sscanf(buffer, "%d", &withdrawl);
   for (i = 0; i < counter; i++)	 
   {
    if (strcmp(buffer, &accts[i].acctNbr) == 0)
       accts[i].acctBal = accts[i].acctBal - withdrawl;
   }

Any help on this would be great! Thanks!

I don't suppose you'd mind letting anyone know what acctNbr's type is? Surely it is not an int whose address you are passing to a string comparison function in lieu of a pointer to a char.

Actually yes but, should I then create another array (of int type) just so that I can compare it to acctNbr?

Thank you sooooo much! atoi() fixed my prog!!