Tobie,

What you have here is a misunderstanding of strings in C:

char string[10];        // reserves a 10 character area of memory. 'string'
is the address
                                 // (ptr) of the first of those.

char *sptr;                // reserved memory for a _pointer_ to one or more
characters

sptr = "Hello";         // allocates 6 characters of memory to hold hello
and a null and
                                // puts a pointer to those six characters in
sptr

string = "Hello";     // illegal because you can't change the value of
'string' which is a pointer
                               // to those 10 reserved characters.

string[0] = 'H';        // valid: stores H at the first character pointed to
by string

*string = 'H';          // valid: does the same thing

strcpy(string,"Hello");    // valid: calls a routine to copy characters from
the "Hello\0" to the
                                        // memory locations pointed to by
'string'

Hope this helps.

Bob Ammerman
RAm Systems
(contract development of high performance, high function, low-level
software)

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