Thread: Copying Cuurent time to string

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    Copying Cuurent time to string

    Hi,

    I am trying to copy the current time to a string but it throws a warning in dev c of about some "numeric value conversion to the other string".....I don't remember exactly.....but is the code Ok??

    Code:
    #include<stdio.h>
    #include<time.h>
    #include<string.h>
    
    int main()
    {
    char dte[40];
    time_t present;
    time(&present);
    
    
    strcpy(date,ctime(&present));
    
    puts(date);
    
    getchar();
    
    return 0;
    }

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    > .I don't remember exactly.....but is the code Ok??
    I'm guessing that since you don't remember the error message, that you also don't remember the code either.

    In other words, you just typed something and posted it here.
    Code:
    $ gcc -g -Wall foo.c
    foo.c: In function ‘main’:
    foo.c:12:8: error: ‘date’ undeclared (first use in this function)
    foo.c:12:8: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
    foo.c:7:6: warning: unused variable ‘dte’ [-Wunused-variable]
    It doesn't even compile.

    Come back when you can post the actual code you tried to compile, and the actual error messages you got.

    Otherwise, it's just a big waste of time.
    If you dance barefoot on the broken glass of undefined behaviour, you've got to expect the occasional cut.
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