Thread: String with variable size

Hi, everyone. I'm trying to write a program that has a string array with variable dimension - it reads the dimension from the keyboard, and, depending on the value, gives certain values to the array offsets. However, when I compile the code, I get the following error on the bold lines below: "error: incompatible types when assigning to type 'char[(unsigned int)(size + 1)]' from type 'char *'". The code is as follows:

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main (void)
{

    int size, i;
    char name[size + 1];

    printf("Choose a size: ");
    scanf("%d", size);

    if (size == 2)
    {
        name = "AB";
    }
    else if (size == 3)
    {
        name = "ABC";
    }

   //prints the string:
    for (i = 0 ; i < strlen(name) ; i++)
        printf("%c", name[i]);

    return 0;

}

How can I change the code so that it be correct? Thanks in advance!

You've gotten to here without learning about strcpy?

quzah, thanks! But how do I change the code to follow your last suggestion?

Ok, thanks again.