Thread: Soundex

Hi there,

I'm writing a program that converts surnames into Soundex code and I've almost finished, but having a couple of problems with one of my functions. I keep getting two errors saying:

warning: return makes integer from pointer without a cast
warning: function returns address of local variable

Here's my code. I'd really appreciate some help!!

Code:

int change(int *c)

{

   int coded_name[MAXNAME];
   int *p = coded_name;
   int cnt;

   while (cnt < CODELEN) {      

      for ( ; *c != '\0'; c++) {

      if(*p++ == 'b' || *p++ == 'p' || *p++ == 'f' || *p++ == 'v') {
         *p++ = 1;
      }

      else if(*p++ == 'c' || *p++ == 's' || *p++ == 'k' || 
	      *p++ == 'g' || *p++ == 'j' || *p++ == 'q' || 
              *p++ == 'x' || *p++ == 'z') {
         *p++ = 2;
      }

      else if(*p++ == 'd' || *p++ == 't') {
         *p++ = 3;
      }

      else if(*p++ == 'l') {
         *p++ = 4;
      }

      else if(*p++ ==  'm' || *p++ == 'n') {
         *p++ = 5;
      }

      else if(*p++ == 'r') {
         *p++ = 6;
      }

      else {
         *p++ = 0;
      }

      }

   }

   return coded_name;

}

Thanks