I'm wondering if anyone could help me out with the following code fragment. What I'm trying to figure out is how to store one array in another. I've tried everything I could think of yet all resulted in errors from the compiler. The following is a fragment from my code that should be enough show you where I stand:
char min[20], max[20], input[20] ;
printf("Enter word: ");
scanf("%s", &input);
min = input; max = input;
char min[20], max[20], input[20] ;
printf("Enter word: ");
scanf("%s", input);
strcpy(min, input);
strcpy(max, input);
This is how you do it. Note that I have removed the & in the scanf also.
scanf is not a good function to use - http://c-faq.com/stdio/scanfprobs.html
#include <string.h> to get the declarations for strcpy.
I think you have to copy input into max and min array. So code should be
char min[20], max[20], input[20] ;
printf("Enter word: ");
scanf("%s", input);
strcpy(min,input);
strcpy(max,input);
memcpy is your friend:
char min[20], max[20], input[20];
memset(min,'d',19);
min[19] = 0;
memcpy(min,max,20);
You should try to copy the string.
strncpy(input, min, sizeof(min)-1);
strncpy(input, max, sizeof(max)-1);
//to be careful
min[sizeof(min)-1] = '\0';
max[sizeof(max)-1] = '\0';
&, or usefgets. And loop through to copy arrays.strcpy. You can easily look that up.