assignment makes integer from pointer without a cast

Question

In the below code am getting an error while am assigning len1 to array a The error is

assignment makes integer from pointer without a         


        

Answer 1

What are the types of the (sub-)expressions in your statement?

a[4] = len1;

len1 is an array of 50 chars (type char[50]) but in the expression above it decays to a pointer to its first element. That's a value of type char*.
a[4] is an object of type char.

You cannot assign a char* to an object of type char!

I think maybe you wanted

/* BEWARE BUFFER OVERFLOWS */
strcpy(a+4, len1); /* a+4 is of type `char*`, len1 decays to `char*` */