Thread: Structs and Error C2106

I receive error C2106 (Compiler Error C2106 (C++))

on these 2 lines:

Code:

data.buddy = buddyname;
	data.message = "AAA";

these are the relevant declarations at the beginning of the method:

Code:

guchar buddyname[MAX_BUDDYNAME_LENGTH+1];
	struct tapData data;
	struct tapData *p = &data;

and this is my struct defined at the top of my code:

Code:

struct tapData {
	char buddy[20];
	char message[200];
};

the guchar buddyname is set in the code. I'm confused as to why I can't assign either value?

I'm a bit confused myself. Why are you posting this in the C forum, instead of the C++ forum?

Because you can't assign to arrays. To put characters into a character array, use strcpy or similar.

As the poster said:

Code:

strcpy(data.message,"AAA");

This copies the string AAA into data.message, and appends the null at the end of the 3 characters.

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Ah, thank you.