Thread: Little help?

I just started a program today, and only got the first function finished when I ran into problems. Just my luck. Anyway, I'm not exactly sure what the problem is, because I have just recently learned about arrays. Well...here's what I have(like I said, its the very beginning):

/*Include Statements*/
#include <stdio.h>


/*Function Prototypes*/
void getnames(char pl1, char pl2);

/*Main Function*/
int main(void)
{
/*Variable Declaration*/
char player1[20], player2[20];



getnames(player1, player2);

printf("%c %c", player1, player2);


return 0;
}

/*Function to Get the Players' Names*/
void getnames(char pl1[20], char pl2[20])
{
printf("Player 1, Please Enter Your Name: ");
scanf(" %c", &pl1);
printf("Player 2, Please Enter Your Name: ");
scanf(" %c", &pl2);

return;
}

The error I get is this:
"error C2664: 'getnames' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'char [20]' to 'char'
This conversion requires a reinterpret_cast, a C-style cast or function-style cast"

I am using The Microsoft Visual C++ compiler (v6.0)...sometimes I get errors with it that I won't with Turbo C++. Anyway, I tried using getnames(&player1[0], &player2[0]), though they (to my knowledge) do the same thing. I really dunno what's wrong, all I want to do is get and store the 2 players' first names (I added the printf to see if it was working right, little did I know that I wouldn't even get that far) into the arrays.

But please remember, I'm new to arrays, so don't be too harsh if its a glaring error...I won't pick up on those for some time yet... =P

Any help would be much appriciated. = )

- Pat

Thanks for all the help, it got rid of the error. =P My teacher is big on forgetting to tell us what placeholder goes with what variable type (a friend of mine was using %d for float for about a week). Now I have a new problem...ugh. Here's the code:

/*Include Statements*/
#include <stdio.h>


/*Function Prototypes*/
void getnames(char pl1[20], char pl2[20]);

/*Main Function*/
int main(void)
{
/*Variable Declaration*/
char player1[20], player2[20];



getnames(player1, player2);

printf("%s %s \n", player1, player2);


return 0;
}

/*Function to Get the Players' Names*/
void getnames(char pl1[20], char pl2[20])
{
printf("Player 1, Please Enter Your Name: ");
scanf(" %s", &pl1);
printf("Player 2, Please Enter Your Name: ");
scanf(" %s", &pl2);

return;
}


And here is the output:


Player 1, Please Enter Your Name: Bob
Player 2, Please Enter Your Name: John
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If I'm having problems this early, I hope the whole project isn't doomed.... =P

- Pat