Substring to Char[]

Good Day Everyone,

Once again I am having a problem, other that trying to wake up on a Monday. I am trying to set a char[] = a substring. I keep getting a "cannot convert error". I get those quit often. Any suggestions on how I can learn to avoid this problem. More specifically, how can I correct this problem now?????

Thanks,
Kendal

"I am trying to set a char[] = a substring."

Whatever that means.

You need to allocate some space there.

I assume you are doing like:
char a[] = something that returns a char *;

a char[] is not a char*

I not sure but this may work.

strcpy(char,"substring");

if i understand the question correctly

This is actually done in a class. I am actually reading a line at a time from a file into a string. I then want to pull fields from the string and store them into class members. Big Picture==Converting a 9 mb text file of patient records into a format that can be read into a MYSQL table. The text file has to be edited. Anyway, here is one of the lines of code:

lname = readline->substr(8,19);

lname is declared as "char lname[20]"
readline is the string that holds the line from the file

Any Ideas????

Thanks,
Kendal

lname[0] = my_string[0]
etc.

Doesn't that only copy 1 character at a time????
I just want to load the string returned by substr into a character array.

Originally posted by gvector1
lname = readline->substr(8,19);

lname is declared as "char lname[20]"
readline is the string that holds the line from the file

you cannot do something like that. lname stores the address of 20 bytes of memory allocated for the array. the statement "name = readline->substr(8, 19);" attempts to change the address of lname to the value returned by substr().
what you want to do is copy the string into the lname buffer:

Code:

std::string sub = readline->substr(8, 19);
strncpy(lname, sub.c_str(), sub.size());
lname[sub.size()] = NULL;