In article <002501c034cc$a4aabec0$546dc918@videotron.ca> you write:

>I started by defining a char array (char string[10]; works ok) and then
>tried to assign it a value (string = 'Hello!'; not ok).

>Is this a normal behaviour for a PIC C compiler ? Do the Hitec and CCS
>compiler support strings ?

Firstly, C uses " as the string constant delmiter.

Secondly, there is no string assignment operator in C.  You need to call
a subroutine.

Try:

        strcpy(string, "Hello!");


Note that you can initialize a character array with a string constant:

        char string[10] = "Hello!";

You can also point a character pointer to (the first character of) a
string constant:

        char *stringp;
        stringp = "Hello!";

Before you start declaring bugs in a compiler, you should at least
try to learn the language first.

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