string & array

[Hans Van den Eynden]

Hallo

Why isn't this working??

char *p="abcd";
p[3]='h';

I want to replace a character in the p string.

thx

[Victor Bazarov]

Re: string & array

Hans Van den Eynden wrote:[color=blue]
> Hallo
>
> Why isn't this working??
>
> char *p="abcd";
> p[3]='h';
>
> I want to replace a character in the p string.[/color]

"abcd" has the type 'const char[5]'. You cannot change the value
of a constant char. You probably want to declare 'p' as an array
instead of a pointer:

char p[] = "abcd";
p[3] = 'h';

V