error: braces around scalar initializer...

The following snippet encompasses lines 4-56 in my code:

Code:

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        record tmpKnowledgeBase[] = {
                {"REPETITION T1**"},
                LINK_SPECIAL,
                {
                        "Why are you repeating yourself?",
                        "I heard you the first time.",
                        "This conversation is starting to bore me.",
                        "Don't you have anything else to say?"
                },
                {"REPETITION T2**"},
                LINK_SPECIAL,
                {
                        "Yes, I know. You already said that.",
                        "Didn't you already say that?",
                        "I'm getting the impression you're repeating yourself."
                },
                {"BOT DONT UNDERSTAND**"},
                LINK_SPECIAL,
                {
                        "What are you talking about?.",
                        "I'm not sure I understand what you mean...",
                        "Huh?"
                },
                {"NULL INPUT**"},
                LINK_SPECIAL,
                {
                        "What the heck is that supposed to mean?",
                        "At least take the time to say SOMETHING.",
                        "Talking requires TWO people, you know."
                },
                {"NULL INPUT REPETITION**"},
                LINK_SPECIAL,
                {
                        "...",
                        "Wow, that's really annoying. Stop it.",
                        "What's wrong with you?",
                        "This isn't funny - it's just stupid."
                },
                {"HELLO", "HI"},
                LINK_OR,
                {
                        "Hey there!",
                        "Hello.",
                        "Hiya!"
                },
                {"WHAT", "YOUR", "NAME"},
                LINK_AND,
                {
                        "My name is "+botName+"!",
                        "Does it really matter?",
                        botName+", at your service."
                }
        };

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Here are the declarations for structs record and keywords:

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typedef struct {
        std::string keyset[TURNERBOT_MAX_KEYWORDS];
        int linkType;
} keywords;

typedef struct {
        keywords keys;
        std::string response[TURNERBOT_MAX_RESP];
} record;

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Now, this looks fine to ME, but... I'm not that great a C++. I'm getting the following error when I try to compile:

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/home/shane/TurnerBot/src/bot.cpp: In member function 'void TurnerBot::generateKnowledgeBase()':
/home/shane/TurnerBot/src/bot.cpp:56: error: braces around scalar initializer for type 'std::string'
/home/shane/TurnerBot/src/bot.cpp:56: error: braces around scalar initializer for type 'int'
/home/shane/TurnerBot/src/bot.cpp:56: error: braces around scalar initializer for type 'std::string'
/home/shane/TurnerBot/src/bot.cpp:56: error: braces around scalar initializer for type 'std::string'
/home/shane/TurnerBot/src/bot.cpp:56: error: braces around scalar initializer for type 'int'
/home/shane/TurnerBot/src/bot.cpp:56: error: braces around scalar initializer for type 'std::string'
/home/shane/TurnerBot/src/bot.cpp:56: error: braces around scalar initializer for type 'std::string'
/home/shane/TurnerBot/src/bot.cpp:56: error: braces around scalar initializer for type 'int'
/home/shane/TurnerBot/src/bot.cpp:56: error: braces around scalar initializer for type 'std::string'
/home/shane/TurnerBot/src/bot.cpp:56: error: braces around scalar initializer for type 'std::string'

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Can somebody please tell me what this is talking about and how I can fix it? =/

I think I ran into this once before. Although a single string literal initializer may be optionally enclosed in braces...

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const char text[] = {"initializer"};

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...I don't believe this recurses to members of an aggregate. I believe the fix is to write them as

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const char text[] = "initializer";

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[edit]Looks up and sees it's C++.
Either that or there's using the string constructor for these values.

Your brace placement is wrong. The way you have it, the compiler thinks that {"REPETITION T1**"} is the initializer for a complete record struct.

Should be

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record tmpKnowledgeBase[] = {
        {
                {
                        {"REPETITION T1**"},
                        LINK_SPECIAL
                },
                {
                        "Why are you repeating yourself?",
                        "I heard you the first time.",
                        "This conversation is starting to bore me.",
                        "Don't you have anything else to say?"
                }
        },
// ...

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