Making a constructor for a array of character.

Code:

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class Robot{
      char name[15]; //assign to char n
      int x, y , direction;
      void ToString(int d);
public:
      Robot(char *n, int eks, int why, int d);
      void print();
      void Move();
      void Turn(int to);
      bool At(int eks, int why);
      void step();
};




Robot::Robot(char *n, int eks, int why, int d)//Constructor
{ 
    name=*n;
    eks=x;
    why=y;
    direction=d;


}

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Hi guys,, how do i assign char name[] in the class to char n in the constructor?

pls help,, any explanation or solution will do...

A few questions to point you in the right direction:
How will the constructor know how many characters that n points to?
What sort of functions work according to the answer you just gave?
How many chars can you copy from n to name?

And finally, why not simply use std::string and have it just easily work?

thanks for the reply,, i ended up using this constructor

Code:

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Robot::Robot(char *n, int eks, int why, int d){ 
    strcpy(name,n);
    x=eks;
    y=why;
    direction=d;
   
}

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That is bad though: strcpy will copy until a null character is found, even if the number of characters copied exceeds that which can be stored in the array, resulting in a buffer overflow.

If you changed name to be a std::string and then changed the constructor parameter to be a const std::string& you would fix this problem.