Thread: Array initialization...

You can't do assignments like that. You can only assign that way when the variable is declared. Otherwise, you have to assign each member of a structure or element of an array one at a time:

Code:

struct foo
{
    char *bar;
    int x;
} array[] = 

{
    { "one", 1 },
    { "two", 2 },
    { "tre", 3 }
}; /* this is valid */

struct foo instance;
instance = { "four", 4 }; /* this is not */

instance.bar = "five"; /* valid */
instance.x = 5; /* also valid */

Quzah.

ahhhh thankyou!!

I had a feeling it might have been something like that but I was kinda hoping it wasn't since the variable being assigned to really needs to be global (it's the basis set of eigenvectors for the quantum chemical calculations that the program does) - so i really wanted to keep the declaration in the header file.

but earlier in the day i just did a simple

Code:

c[nbasis][nbasis] = {
        { ... },
           ...
        { ... },
};

and that worked perfectly.
but unfortunately I'm new enough to C (it's just been a couple of weeks but i have done heaps of java and perl) to think that perhaps it had to do with the fact that c was declared as **c, not c[n][n]... (even though I have read about pointers and arrays and their special affinities...)

well that's a shame!

thanks so much for clearing that up!