Thread: accessing structure issues

Can anyone please show me whats going wrong here.

I'm trying to access a structure from within another structure but am recieving errors.

Structures are global and are as follows:

Code:

struct StockItem
{
    int code;
    char desc[20];
    float price;
}stock[NUM_OF_ITEMS];

struct BillLine
{
    StockItem stock;
    float weight;
    float cost;
}bill_line[50];

The 'stock' array is already populated.
My code is as follows:

Code:

BillLine bill_item(void)
{
    BillLine bill;
    int item;
    
    cls();
    cout << "Enter item number purchased: ";
    cin >> item;
    item -= 1;
/*line 213*/    bill.stock = stock[item];
    cout << "Weight: ";
    cin >> bill.weight;
    
    bill.cost = stock[item].price * bill.weight;
    
    return (bill);
}

void print_bill ( BillLine bill_line[50], int num_bill_items )
{
    for (int i=0; i<num_bill_items; ++i)
    {
/*line 240*/        cout << "Name = " << bill_line[i].stock.desc << endl;
        cout << "Weight = " << bill_line[i].weight << endl;
        cout << "Cost = " << bill_line[i].cost << endl;
    }
}

MY compile log is as follows:

Compiler: Default compiler
Executing g++.exe...
g++.exe "C:\Ged\code\assignment\best.cpp" -o "C:\Ged\code\assignment\best.exe" -g3 -O0 -g3 -I"C:\Ged\Dev-Cpp\include\c++" -I"C:\Ged\Dev-Cpp\include\c++\mingw32" -I"C:\Ged\Dev-Cpp\include\c++\backward" -I"C:\Ged\Dev-Cpp\include" -L"C:\Ged\Dev-Cpp\lib"
C:/Ged/code/assignment/best.cpp: In function `BillLine bill_item()':
C:/Ged/code/assignment/best.cpp:213: incompatible types in assignment of `
StockItem' to `StockItem[125]'

C:/Ged/code/assignment/best.cpp: In function `void print_bill(BillLine*, int)':
C:/Ged/code/assignment/best.cpp:240: request for member `desc' in `(bill_line +
(+(i * 3508)))->BillLine::stock', which is of non-aggregate type `
StockItem[125]'

Execution terminated

How about annotating your code snippet with a few line numbers, specifically, the line numbers in the error messages.

Or is this yet another case of someone writing too much code between compile attempts.