"error C2106: '=' : left operand must be l-value"

i keep getting that error everytime. (error C2106: '=' : left operand must be l-value) i want to take specific feilds from the data i read in, and put it into another struct. but when i get to the productlineid it keeps erroring. both are set to char of [10]

here's what im doing

Code:

class Data		//class used to take in the data from the file
{
	private:
		struct Rawdata
		{
		int ordernumber;
		char date[10];
		int orderedproductid;
		float priceperproduct;
		int numberordered;
		char productlineid[10];	//data in this field must be 10 chars long so ----'s are added to the text
		int customerid;	
		};              		// file so each product id has 10 chars so it properly reads it
	public:
		Data( );  //constructor
		void ReadFile(int);
		ifstream transactionin;  // Allows class access to tranaction file
};

class Report		//class used to sort the data and print it out
{
	public:
		struct Transaction	// Declaration of Transaction Structure
		{
		int orderedproductid;
		int numberordered;
		float priceperproduct;
		char productlineid[10];	//data in this field must be 10 chars long so ----'s are added to the text
		};						// file so each product id has 10 chars so it properly reads it
	
		Transaction datain[10];
		Report();  //constructor
		void SortData();
		void PrintData();
};

.............cut out not relevent code

void Data::ReadFile(int MAXRECS)
{
int Record = 0;

transactionin.open("transaction.h", ios::in, ios::nocreate); //open transaction.h file
if (transactionin == NULL)		//check if file opened correctly
{
	cout << "\nThe file transaction.h was not opened, please check the file" << endl;
	exit(1);
}

	int LINECOUNTER = 0;		//counter to increase the structure
	char NEWLINE = '\n';
	int ch;
	char line[100];

while( (ch = transactionin.peek()) != EOF)  // this counts how many lines are
{											// in the transaction.h data file
	transactionin.getline(line,100,NEWLINE);
		LINECOUNTER++;
}
transactionin.close();


Rawdata record[10];   // constant problem!!!!!!!


transactionin.open("transaction.h", ios::in, ios::nocreate);
while (Record < LINECOUNTER)  //reads the text file until MAXRECS has been reached
{					     // putting the data into the appropriate struct array position
  transactionin >> record[Record].ordernumber; 
  transactionin >> record[Record].date ;
  transactionin >> record[Record].orderedproductid ;
  transactionin >> record[Record].priceperproduct ;
  transactionin >> record[Record].numberordered; 
  transactionin >> record[Record].productlineid ;
  transactionin >> record[Record].customerid ;
  Record++;						// increment the record counter
}

transactionin.close();   //close the data file transaction.h

Record=0;
Report::Transaction datain[10];

while(Record < LINECOUNTER)
{
datain[Record].orderedproductid  = record[Record].orderedproductid;
datain[Record].numberordered = record[Record].numberordered ;
datain[Record].priceperproduct = record[Record].priceperproduct;
datain[Record].productlineid = record[Record].productlineid ;   //THIS IS WHERE ERRROR HAPPENS
Record++;
}

}

You can't assign strings using the = operator. Use strcpy() instead.

strcpy(Destination, Source) if I remember it right.

ahhh thank you!

i am way out of my league on this assignment, but trying to do the best i can.

thanks again!

Jon