char trouble

I don't know whats wrong. I'm trying to use a vairable of type char and I can't assign anything to it. Heres my code:

Code:

struct SUIT_ID
{
       char number[20];
       char suit[20];
};

SUIT_ID deal(int card_pos)
{
    SUIT_ID respond = {"", ""};
    int card = number_deck[card_pos];
    int suit = suit_deck[card_pos];
    if(card == 2)        {respond.number = "2";}
    else if(card == 3)   {respond.number = "3";}
    else if(card == 4)   {respond.number = "4";}
    else if(card == 5)   {respond.number = "5";}
    else if(card == 6)   {respond.number = "6";}
    else if(card == 7)   {respond.number = "7";}
    else if(card == 8)   {respond.number = "8";}
    else if(card == 9)   {respond.number = "9";}
    else if(card == 10)  {respond.number = "10";}
    else if(card == 11)  {respond.number = "Jack";}
    else if(card == 12)  {respond.number = "Queen";}
    else if(card == 13)  {respond.number = "King";}
    else if(card == 14)  {respond.number = "Ace";}
    
    if(suit == 0)        {respond.suit = "Diamonds";}
    else if(suit == 1)   {respond.suit = "Clovers";}
    else if(suit == 2)   {respond.suit = "Hearts";}
    else if(suit == 3)   {respond.suit = "Spades";}
    return respond;
}

If anyone could help it would be great!!!

i suggest using a enum to allocate numbers to user defined types

I don't know whats wrong. I'm trying to use a vairable of type char and I can't assign anything to it.

In short, you need to do this:

Code:

char number[20];
strcpy(number, "9");

In C++, array names are pointers. Pointers are variables that can be assigned addresses. Yes, it's true that if you do this:

char number[] = "King";
cout<<number;

number will display as a string and not an address, but that is because the << operator is programmed NOT to ouput the address of the type: pointer to char. Instead, the <<operator automatically dereferences a pointer to type char, which obtains the value at that address, and displays the text. That makes it difficult to know that the name of a char array is a pointer. For arrays of other types, the << operator displays an address when you output the array name:

int numbers[] = {1, 2, 3};
cout<<numbers; //006BFDEC

which makes it easy to know the array name is a pointer.

Since, something like "9" or "King" is not an address, it can't be assigned to number. If you want to assign some text to a char array, you can use the <cstring> function strcpy():

Code:

char number[20];
strcpy(number, "9");
cout<<number<<endl;

Thanks a lot, I had a lot of trouble with that before too.