Conversion from char[100] to char* ?

zahadumy · 12-11-2005, 05:15 PM

I want to do something like this:

Code:

char[100] c;
char* s;
s=c;   // I get segmentation fault here

How do I do this? Thank you.

ntubski · 12-11-2005, 06:50 PM

When I do that it doesn't even compile.

I think if you put

char c[100];

it will work fine. (does for me)

Mistro116@yahoo.com · 12-11-2005, 09:04 PM

Your problem lies in setting a string to a pointer to a string. Because s has no defined size, the program will seg fault. If you want to do this, s needs to be char s[100] as well.

You can do this in functions:

void copyString (char c[100], char *s)
{
strcpy (s, c);
}

As long as the length for s was predefined where this function is being called.

Hope this helps,
Mistro116