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Cannot convert from char[38] to char[100]

Armed and Hammered · 2001-05-18T10:52:10

Hey guys, I''m programming a simple text game and there is a structure where each location on the maps data is stored. In it is a char array called description to store a descripiton of that location in. When I try to set the description it gives a error message that says "C:\Windows\Desktop\Text_Game_C.cpp(71) : error C2440: ''='' : cannot convert from ''char [38]'' to ''char [100]''" Here is the code for the struct and the statement to set the variable : struct: struct location { char description[100]; int exits[4]; }map[2]; variable: map[1].description = "A dark room with an exit to the east\0"; map[1].exits[E] = 1; map[2].description = "Another dark room with an exit to the west\0"; map[2].exits[W] = 1; Please, any help on this matter will be greatly appreciated Thx in advance

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Started by Armed and Hammered May 15, 2001 10:25 AM

12 comments, last by Armed and Hammered 23 years, 8 months ago

Armed and Hammered

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May 17, 2001 01:46 PM

never mind guys, I figured out why the ''@'' thing was happening.
I had a test printf("") statement and it was printing the character before the descripiton printed, it just occured to me, hehe. Thx for the help tho

Armed.

felisandria

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May 17, 2001 05:09 PM

I would just like to say that it''s truly refreshing to see a newcomer here starting at a sane learning level for his current programming skills, and being so polite. *smile* G''luck and keep it up.

-fel

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Armed and Hammered

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May 18, 2001 10:04 AM

Hey Fel,

Thx for the compliment and for wishing me well. I''m pretty sick and tired of hearing n00b game programmers talking about how they want to code the next HL engine or something along those lines. I chose this text base game because I just finished a book on C and I decided to try and implement all of its features to prove to myself that I knew it well enough to move on to c++. Its been great fun to. My project is slowly getting bigger and bigger and turning into a complete text based game engine

Well thx for the help guys

Cheers, Armed.