Ultra basic question, got a mind block going on

[osiris^]

Hey all,

The following code causes the error "incompatible types" on the line "Osiris.name = "Osiris";"

struct player {

    char name[10];
    int chosenNumbers[6];

};

    struct player Osiris;
    Osiris.name = "Osiris";

I've used strings and structs, in a very similar manner to this before. I've checked my previous code, but can't see what's going wrong.... it's identical to my code before but this time it's throwing that error. I don't get it...

[hk_mp5kpdw]

You cannot do a straight assign of a value to an array in that way. You would have to use (in this case) strcpy/strncpy, i.e.:

strcpy(Osiris.name,"Osiris");

In the context of your original code, you are attempting to point the address of the array (which is fixed and not something you can change) to the address of the string literal "Osiris" which resides in the program's data segment somewhere.

[osiris^]

Yeah, sorry, I wrote that exact thing about 45 seconds ago, and was coming back to the thread to say nevermind lol.

Cheers for the explanation on what's actually happening