extremely simple question

[Mike Lundell]

what's wrong with this, and .. can you not declare "char" variables?

#include <iostream>

int main()
{
int a = "* * * * * * * *\n";
std::cout << a;
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

thx

[Tim Slattery]

Re: extremely simple question

Mike Lundell <workingmike_no @spam_hotmail.c om> wrote:
[color=blue]
>what's wrong with this, and .. can you not declare "char" variables?
>
>#include <iostream>
>
>int main()
>{
> int a = "* * * * * * * *\n";[/color]

You're trying to assign a character string to an integer variable.
That's not going to work. You need something like:

char a[] = "* * * * * * * *\n";

Also, you might want to investigate the "string" in the STL[color=blue]
> std::cout << a;
> return EXIT_SUCCESS;
>}
>
>thx[/color]


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