Thread: assigning strings

Hi, I've just started writing a small program, however I've experienced a problem (this is a tiny piece of the code):

Code:

while ((symbol=getch())!='a')
printf("ERROR");
printf("%c",symbol);

array[i].field=symbol; /* file structure=array of records, where "field" is defined as char field[10]*/

I get the "Lvalue required" at the last line - what's that supposed to mean in this situation? How can I assign a string (or a char) to a string.

You can't assign into an array, only into individual slots of an array. Since symbol is a character, you need to specify which of the field[0] through field[9] slots that character should go into.

Code:

while ((symbol=getch())!='a')
printf("ERROR");
printf("%c",symbol);

[array[i].field=symbol; /* file structure=array of records, where "field" is defined as char

shldnt it be getchar(). instead of getch

btw you cannot assign

Code:

array[i].field=symbol; /* file structure=array of records, where "field" is defined as char

it may be good in java but you need to directly store it into the array

So it means that I can not directly assign a string to the "field". Right, but now another thing - do I have to use a loop or something like that to assign a whole string to this field? Because I want to write something like this:

if (symbol=='a')
array[i].field[0]='option 1';

and obviously it gives me an error that "Character constant must be 1 or 2 characters long" - does it mean that the only way to do that, for example, array[0].field = 'option 1' is to create a loop and assigning the whole string character by character like array[0].field[0]='o', array[0].field[1]='p' ... Sound silly - there must be a better way?