Thread: Definition?

Can any one define this (and its utility) for me, as concretely as possible? It is include in my code and only returns an error.

char * pch;

Ok, (been typing all day...)sorry, more clearly now:

char * pch; = ???

What error are you getting?

Its a pointer to a char. My advice: don't deal with pointers until you get to them in your study of C++.

full piece of code snippet:

Code:

char * pch;
pch=strstr (str, 'good');

related error: "arguement of type "int" is incompatible with parameter of type "const char" *

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
#include <string.h>
#include <windows.h>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
char str[]="good"; 
char grabber[256];


cout<< "Hello, how are you today?\n"<< endl;                     
cin.getline(grabber,256);

char * pch;
pch=strstr (str, 'good'); //Searching for “good” in  ^ Char str


if(pch !=NULL) 

cout<< "I am glad to hear you are doing well today."<< endl;                      
else
cout<< "Is anything wrong at all? Would you like to discuss it? \n"<< endl;                      



Sleep(50000);

return 0;  //END

    }

Ah,

A simple error:

Code:

pch=strstr(str, 'good');

Try changing the pair of single quotes ('') to double quotes ("").

The function strstr() takes a string [array of characters] for the second argument. By sending 'good', that can cause simple issues because the single quotes are to define a single character while the double quotes define an array of characters.


- Stack Overflow

Does strstr() return an integer? Sounds like it does. You do seem to be trying to cover alot of c++ material at once. Take Zach's suggestion.

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nevermind, seems Stack Overflow solved the problem. strstr() doesn't return an int. I didn't even catch that S.O., just looked at the error.
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