Thread: Assertion Failure w/ sprintf

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    Assertion Failure w/ sprintf

    OK, im using sprintf, what im doing is taking what's in my combo box and edit boxes, and putting them into one char array, so im using sprint f, and all the things are there in the chars. but it keeps giving me an assertion failure.

    here's the code:

    Code:
    sprintf(time_on,"%s%s%s%s%s%s",year,month,day,hour,min,sec);
    in this year is equal to 2004, month is equal to january and so on. i used the debugger to check if the data was coming in, and they all were. time_on is equal to "". i dont know if thats whats causing it, but i hope someone can help me.

    thanks.

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    Are year,month,day,hour,min,sec all strings?
    If not, then change some of the %s to reflect the data types you want to format
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    Yeah, they are all strings

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    > time_on is equal to "".
    Paste what you mean then

    It needs to be
    char time_on[1000];
    or something like it

    char *time_on = "";
    Simply isn't good enough
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    I made it the way you stated about like this:

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    char time_on[1000];
    i still get the same thing, its crashing every time it hits the sprintf statement.

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    ok i got it to work, thanks :-)

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