assignment of arrays problem

Hi.

I am having a bit of a problem with a struct.

Code:

struct jogador
{
    char nome[tamanho_nome];
    int ind_jogador;
    int area_j, area_r, area_c, area_i;
} jogador1, jogador2;

further ahead i want to assign a char array to jogador1.nome, like so:

Code:

char nome1[tamanho_nome],  // nome do jogador1
    nome2[tamanho_nome]; // nome do jogador2

    //jogador 1
    cout << "Nome do Jogador 1: ";
    cin.getline(nome1, tamanho_nome);

    //jogador 2
    cout << "Nome do Jogador 2: ";
    cin.getline(nome2, tamanho_nome);

    //dados relativos ao jogador 1
    jogador1.nome = nome1;

    ...
    ...

When I try to compile the file it returns this error:

"ISO C++ forbids assignment of arrays"

Does anyone know why this happens? And what can i do to work around this?

Thanks.

BTW, i am using DEVC++ beta 5 (4.9.9.2), under Win XP SP2.

maybe put an integer "array length" in your struct. And declare the "arraylength".

Originally Posted by Ideswa

maybe put an integer "array length" in your struct. And declare the "arraylength".

I forgot to say that "tamanho_nome" is initialized as a const int in the beggining of the file, as

const int tamanho_nome = 11;

Was this what you were talking about?

> char nome[tamanho_nome];
The best thing to do is change this to a string:

Code:

#include <string>
.
.
    std::string nome;

Then you would simply change the remaining code to:

Code:

std::string nome1,  // nome do jogador1
    nome2; // nome do jogador2

    //jogador 1
    cout << "Nome do Jogador 1: ";
    getline(cin, nome1);

    //jogador 2
    cout << "Nome do Jogador 2: ";
    getline(cin, nome2);

    //dados relativos ao jogador 1
    jogador1.nome = nome1;

If you must use char arrays, then use strcpy() to do the copy:

Code:

#include <cstring>
.
.
    //dados relativos ao jogador 1
    strcpy(jogador1.nome, nome1);

Thanks a lot swoopy!

I only tried the second aproach, and it worked great.

I'll try the other one, too, but will probably stick with the second method.

Thanks a lot.