error C2440: '=' : cannot convert from 'char [x]' to 'char [x]'

[c++_n00b]

I'm making a hangman game in the console right now but I've run into this problem and can't seem to figure out what to do (hey, cut me some slack I just started this stuff like a week or so ago and it's not like I study all day... I've got a life). I'm still not quite done with this program but I can probably finish the rest of it once I get this problem fixed

What I'm trying to do is to have it get the length of the word it chooses and then output that many blank spaces so that the user know's how many letters it is

At first I tried using "string word" instead of "char word[]" but it says something like "cannot return length of basic_string::", so now I'm using char. Now I get 4 errors (each one specific to one of the random words) that says:

error C2440: '=' : cannot convert from 'char [x]' to 'char [x]'
There is no context in which this conversion is possible

Can anyone fix this code for me so that it will work or tell me what to do to make it work? Here's the code

#include "stdafx.h"

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
	cout<<"DOS Hangman"<<endl;

	//declare variables
	srand(GetTickCount());
	int n = rand()%4;
	char word[] = {0};

	//choose word
	switch (n)
	{
	case 1:
		word = "This";
		break;
	case 2:
		word = "Is";
		break;
	case 3:
		word = "Another";
		break;
	default:
		word = "Test";
	}

	//outputs blank spaces
	int len;
	len = strlen(word);
	for(int x=0; x==len; x++)
	{
		cout<<"_ ";
	}

	return 0;
}

Oh yeah, and I'm using Visual C++ 6.0 Standard.
Thanks for your help

[Magos]

Use strcpy() instead of =

strcpy(word, "This");

and you have to make a larger string ie:

char word[64]={0};

(depending on how large words you want to store)

[c++_n00b]

thx, but even though there are no more errors, the only thing that the program outputs is:

DOS Hangman

... Anything else I can do?

[Magos]

Originally posted by c++_n00b
for(int x=0; x==len; x++)
{
cout<<"_ ";
}
[/B]

This is wrong, it should be: x<len

Plus, you never print 'word' anywhere, you only set it to 'this', 'is', 'another' or 'test'...

[c++_n00b]

thx magus it works fine now... but if you don't mind me asking why not ever use "=="? Is it because x starts at 0? but if that's not what == is used for what is it used for?

[Dual-Catfish]

You can use '==' but not in that context. You'll use '==' a lot more in for statements or while loops... they're not very common in for loops.

The structure of a for loop is:

for (initilize; test; action)

You had

for (int x=0; x==len; x++)
What this will do is initilize x to zero, compare it to len, if it's not equal to len, control will resume after your loop. The only time this will ever loop through is if len = 0, even then itt'l only execute once, as x is incremented, thus making it != to len.

[Gr3g]

heres how to do it with a char variable... shouldnt be too hard to convert to a full fledged hang man

char word[20];
int rand;

for(int i=0; i<20; i++)
	word[i]=' ';//fills array with spaces

ran=rand()%4;

switch(ran)
{
	case 0: word="blah"; break;
	case 1: word="asdf"; break;
	case 2: word="zxcv"; break;
	case 3: word="qwer"; break;
}

i=0;
while(word[i]!=' ')
{
	cout<<"_ ";
        i++;
}

Gr3g