Thread: strcpy - cannot convert

Hi all,

I'm trying to compile my program and I keep getting the error message

Code:

error C2664: 'strcpy' : cannot convert parameter 2 from 'char' to 'const char *'
        Conversion from integral type to pointer type requires reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or function-style cast

What do I need to change to get around that ?

Oh, and here is the little bit of code that is causing me my problem:

Code:

void time_hours_total(travel_record_type travels[])
{
	int position;
	char temp_hours_time;
	
	if ((travels[position].date_of_arrival) == (travels[position].date_of_departure))
	{
		strcpy((travels[position].time_of_departure_hours) - (travels[position].time_of_arrival_hours), temp_hours_time);
	}
	else
	{
		strcpy((travels[position].time_of_departure_hours) +24 - (travels[position].time_of_arrival_hours), temp_hours_time);
	}
}

Thanks in advance for any help

H_M

I thought it was compiling as 'C' !? You'll have to forgive me on a couple of things, I am a beginner at this and just working my way through it.

The struct 'travels' contains all the data that is entered in by the users e.g. name, address, destination, etc. and I am trying to count the travel time between the two destinations. These times are entered in by the user and I am trying to calculate it in a seperate prototype and then copy the output into a string too - is this a bad idea ? Would it help if I posted my code for that part too ?

I don't understand by what you mean that they are not initialised ?

Well, the data is held in strings and 'position' is where it is held in the database so it calculates the correct travel time and then stores it into a string. Am I going about this in completely the wrong way ? I thought that strcpy was the way to go ?

Ah, I see, that makes sense to me now.

The code of my struct is:

Code:

struct travel_record_type
{
	char member_name[MEMBER_NAME_SIZE+1];
	char member_phone[MEMBER_PHONE_SIZE+1];
	char member_address[MEMBER_ADDRESS_SIZE+1];
	char vehicle_load[VEHICLE_LOAD_SIZE+1];
	char date_of_arrival[DATE_OF_ARRIVAL_SIZE+1];
	char time_of_arrival_hours[TIME_OF_ARRIVAL_HOURS_SIZE+1];
	char time_of_arrival_mins[TIME_OF_ARRIVAL_MINS_SIZE+1];
	char date_of_departure[DATE_OF_DEPARTURE_SIZE+1];
	char time_of_departure_hours[TIME_OF_DEPARTURE_HOURS_SIZE+1];
	char time_of_departure_mins[TIME_OF_DEPARTURE_MINS_SIZE+1];
	char hours_time[HOURS_TIME_SIZE+1];
	char total_time[TOTAL_TIME_SIZE+1];
};

Does this help?

right have a look the strcpy functiont prototype.

Code:

char *  strcpy ( char * dest, const char * src );

it takes two char * as it paramter. but in your case u are passing a just a char which is different from a string or a char * (char []). so u got to send a string as a src and the destination is your struct member.

As said before the temp_hours_time should be initiallized
ssharish2005

Originally Posted by ssharish2005

right have a look the strcpy functiont prototype.

Code:

char *  strcpy ( char * dest, const char * src );

it takes two char * as it paramter. but in your case u are passing a just a char which is different from a string or a char * (char []). so u got to send a string as a src and the destination is your struct member.

As said before the temp_hours_time should be initiallized
ssharish2005

I know this will sound really stupid, but how would I do that ?? I thought I was passing the two of them as 'char' ?

I am trying to work my way around it by using an old book that a friend passed to me, basically self learning and I'm absolutely puzzled on this one !

You guys are geniuses on here, hopefully one day I'll be able to answer some questions on here. )

H_M

Thanks mate - that looks quite good! I'm going to try and work that into my code as mines differs slightly as I'm using 'cout' rather than 'printf' and I want to get the total into another string so it's saved.

I'll need to try it later - that's my mum shouting on me telling me my dinner is ready.

H_M

Thanks. I think my code might actually be a mixture of C and C++ although it started off as C!

It'll need to be tomorrow I look at it now, have to go out now with my mum. Will let you know how I get on.

Many thanks

H_M

Vart,

I tried your code example but still cannot get the 'strcpy' to work. (

Using your code I can get it to work, but as soon as I start changing it to take either of my inputs, it fails miserably! I am determind to get this to work and I suppose you learn by examples and mistakes !

How do I then get it to accept those two strings, calculate the difference and then copy that into another string ?

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

H_M

Code:

strcpy((travels[position].time_of_departure_hours) - (travels[position].time_of_arrival_hours), temp_hours_time);

somehow I got the feeling that you want to assigne the differnece between arrival-time and departure-time to some other variable, and because all your variables are character arrays you are trying to use strcpy() to do that. If so, no that cannot be done.
You have to convert the character arrays to ints before you can do any calculations on them. Try atoi().
Kurt

Thanks Zuk - it can't be done with the way I'm doing it, that clears it up a bit more for me.

I'm just having a look now for 'atoi()' and I'm going to try that, see how I get on.

Many thanks ! Although, I will probably be back !

H_M