assignment to `char *' from `int *'

Hello,

Thanks in advance for anyone's help and/or advice, it is greatly apprecaited on what, i am sure, is a stupid question. Nevertheless, here is my problem:

I have a template class called "MyArray" and i want it to be able to accept an int or char. The contents of the array and the size of the array is taken as a command line argument.

Here is the code in the main function:

Code:

#include "MyArrayDefs.h"

using namespace std;

void main( int argc, char* argv[] )
{
        MyArray<char> charArr( strlen( argv[ 1 ] ) );
        MyArray<int> intArr( strlen( argv[ 1 ] ) );
}

Here is the header file:

Code:

template < class Type > class MyArray
{
        public:
                MyArray( const int ); 
                ~MyArray();
        private:
                char* base;
                int size;
};

Here is the Template header file:

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include "MyArray.h"
         
using namespace std;
        
template < class Type >
MyArray < Type > :: MyArray( const int n )  
{
        base = new Type [ n ];     
        size = n;
}

When i create an array like this:

Code:

MyArray<char> charArr( strlen( argv[ 1 ] ) );

it works fine. But when i do this:

Code:

MyArray<int> intArr( strlen( argv[ 1 ] ) );

it does not work fine. It comes up with the following error:

MyArrayDefs.h: In method `MyArray<int>::MyArray(int)':
main.cc:15: instantiated from here
MyArrayDefs.h:14: assignment to `char *' from `int *'

Any help in solving this error would be massively appreciated.

Best regards, global

Hi,

Code:

template < class Type > class MyArray
{
        public:
                MyArray( const int ); 
                ~MyArray();
        private:
                char* base;
                int size;
};

Code:

template < class Type >
MyArray < Type > :: MyArray( const int n )  
{
        base = new Type [ n ];     
        size = n;
}

So, this:

MyArray<int> intArr( strlen( argv[ 1 ] ) );

produces:

base = new int[n];

Thanks very much. I didn't look at my code properly. Thanks for your time and help.


Best regards, global

> void main( int argc, char* argv[] )
You know this is wrong - use int main