C++ array assign error: invalid array assignment

Question

I\'m not a C++ programmer, so I need some help with arrays. I need to assign an array of chars to some structure, e.g.

struct myStructure {
  char message[40         


        

Answer 1

Because you can't assign to arrays -- they're not modifiable l-values. Use strcpy:

#include 

struct myStructure
{
    char message[4096];
};

int main()
{
    std::string myStr = "hello"; // I need to create {'h', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o'}
    myStructure mStr;
    strcpy(mStr.message, myStr.c_str());
    return 0;
}

And you're also writing off the end of your array, as Kedar already pointed out.