Thread: Private Static class members

Hi,

I'm trying to write a class to hold two variables to be used by a number of functions in the program. Here's the class:

Code:

class InBAF
{
private:
	static char location;
	static CString server;

public:
	static void SetLocation(char newloc)
	{
		location = newloc;
	}

	static void SetServerName(char location)
	{
		switch (location)
		{
		case 'T':	
				// Input Toronto Server
			server = "ftp.pureftpd.org";
			break;

		case 'M':
				// Input Montreal Server
	                	server = "ftp.pureftpd.org"; 
			break;
		}
	}

	static CString GetServerName()
	{
		return server;
	}
};
char InBAF::location = 'N';
CString InBAF::server = '\0';

when I try to compile I get this error for each member of the class:

Code:

private: static char  InBAF::location" (?location@InBAF@@0DA)
 already defined in GetData.obj

GetData is a different function in my project; it has nothing to do with this class.

What am I missing?

and I tried:

Code:

CString InBAF::server[0] = '\0';

but this comes up:

Code:

error C2466: cannot allocate an array of constant size 0
 error C2040: 'private: static class CString  InBAF::server' : 'class CString []' differs in levels of indirection from 'class CString'