accessing structure issues

Can anyone please show me whats going wrong here.

I'm trying to access a structure from within another structure but am recieving errors.

Structures are global and are as follows:

Code:

struct StockItem
{
    int code;
    char desc[20];
    float price;
}stock[NUM_OF_ITEMS];

struct BillLine
{
    StockItem stock;
    float weight;
    float cost;
}bill_line[50];

The 'stock' array is already populated.
My code is as follows:

Code:

BillLine bill_item(void)
{
    BillLine bill;
    int item;
    
    cls();
    cout << "Enter item number purchased: ";
    cin >> item;
    item -= 1;
/*line 213*/    bill.stock = stock[item];
    cout << "Weight: ";
    cin >> bill.weight;
    
    bill.cost = stock[item].price * bill.weight;
    
    return (bill);
}

void print_bill ( BillLine bill_line[50], int num_bill_items )
{
    for (int i=0; i<num_bill_items; ++i)
    {
/*line 240*/        cout << "Name = " << bill_line[i].stock.desc << endl;
        cout << "Weight = " << bill_line[i].weight << endl;
        cout << "Cost = " << bill_line[i].cost << endl;
    }
}

MY compile log is as follows:

Compiler: Default compiler
Executing g++.exe...
g++.exe "C:\Ged\code\assignment\best.cpp" -o "C:\Ged\code\assignment\best.exe" -g3 -O0 -g3 -I"C:\Ged\Dev-Cpp\include\c++" -I"C:\Ged\Dev-Cpp\include\c++\mingw32" -I"C:\Ged\Dev-Cpp\include\c++\backward" -I"C:\Ged\Dev-Cpp\include" -L"C:\Ged\Dev-Cpp\lib"
C:/Ged/code/assignment/best.cpp: In function `BillLine bill_item()':
C:/Ged/code/assignment/best.cpp:213: incompatible types in assignment of `
StockItem' to `StockItem[125]'

C:/Ged/code/assignment/best.cpp: In function `void print_bill(BillLine*, int)':
C:/Ged/code/assignment/best.cpp:240: request for member `desc' in `(bill_line +
(+(i * 3508)))->BillLine::stock', which is of non-aggregate type `
StockItem[125]'

Execution terminated

How about annotating your code snippet with a few line numbers, specifically, the line numbers in the error messages.

Or is this yet another case of someone writing too much code between compile attempts.

Hi Salem,

I've commented in the 2 line numbers which are causing the problems.

Its not a case of writing too much code. I'm writing one function at a time. The rest of the program works perfectly, its just the section I have posted that i'm having problems with.

Thanks.

Nevermind. All sorted now. Thanks.