strcpy is annoying! help!

[Smithy006]

Hi All,

I'm having a an annoying problem with some source, any help will be greatly appreciated!

char point;
//load all other variables etc

//Load BattleStatus.dat into oceanp
thefile.open("battlestatus.dat");
for(rowd = 0; rowd <=9; rowd++)
{
for (cold = 0; cold <=9; cold++)
{
thefile.get(point);
if(point == '~')
//The problem is below I keep getting the following compiler error about the strcpy: error C2664: 'strcpy' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'char' to 'char *'
strcpy(point, " ");

oceanp[rowd][cold] = point;
}
}
thefile.close();



Plz help!

Regards,

Smithy.

[Vlatko]

strcpy is expecting a pointer to a char.

Have a look at thisthread . It is similar to your problem.

[Smithy006]

Hi,

I read over it but it didn't help much. From an overall perspective, what iam trying to achieive is get it to read from a file called battlestatus.dat.
battlestatus.dat contains data in a format like this...
CCCCC S T F SS XX
battlestatus.dat has 100 characters, with things such as Characters and spaces.
My program is supposed to read battlestatus.dat and write it into oceanp [10] [10] when the first program loads.
This is basically what i'm trying to achieve, so far, all it writes is blank spaces to oceanp [10] [10].
I don't know why but battlestatus.dat may contain some spaces after the first 100 characters or it could be that it's not moving onto the next poisition in the file or it could be because the variable point is not updating.
My Code is below. please help!

#include <iostream.h>
#include <cstring>
#include <fstream.h>

char oceanp [10] [10] ={ {' ' , ' ' , ' ' , ' ' , ' ' , ' ' , ' ' , ' ' , ' ' , ' '},
{' ' , ' ' , 'C' , 'C' , 'C' , 'C' , 'C' , ' ' , ' ' , ' '},
{' ' , ' ' , ' ' , ' ' , ' ' , 'S' , ' ' , ' ' , ' ' , ' '},
{' ' , ' ' , ' ' , 'T' , ' ' , 'S' , ' ' , ' ' , ' ' , 'F'},
{' ' , 'M' , ' ' , ' ' , 'T' , 'S' , ' ' , ' ' , 'F' , ' '},
{' ' , 'M' , ' ' , ' ' , ' ' , 'S' , ' ' , 'F' , ' ' , ' '},
{'F' , 'M' , 'B' , ' ' , ' ' , ' ' , ' ' , ' ' , ' ' , ' '},
{'F' , ' ' , ' ' , 'B' , ' ' , ' ' , ' ' , ' ' , 'T' , ' '},
{'F' , ' ' , ' ' , ' ' , 'B' , ' ' , ' ' , ' ' , 'T' , ' '},
{' ' , ' ' , ' ' , ' ' , ' ' , 'B' , ' ' , ' ' , ' ' , ' '} };

int row;
int col;
int rowd;
int cold;
char point = ' ';
ifstream thefile;

int main()
{


//Load BattleStatus.dat into oceanp
thefile.open("battlestatus.dat");
for(rowd = 0; rowd <=9; rowd++)
{
	for (cold = 0; cold <=9; cold++)
	{
		thefile.get(point);
		oceanp[rowd][cold] = point;
	}
}
thefile.close();

		
	
	cout << "**********   Smithy's Simple BattleShips Game!!   **********" << endl;
	cout << "Program By:  Ben Smith. (C) 2001 Ben Smith." << endl;
	cout << endl;

Any Help would be greatly appreciated!!
Thanks.

Regards,

Smithy.

[KENNNY]

strcpy(point, " ");

the reason for the error is you're passing a char, point, to strcpy when it wants a char*

so do this:

strcpy(&point, " ");

to pass point's address

think that should work, from my shaky C knowledge

[HarryW]

A pointer to a character isn't the same as a string. It needs to be null-terminated to work. Anyway for assigning a character you don't need to use strcpy(), you can just assign with the assignment operator ( = ) :

point = ' ';

I can't really suggest anything for the file access problem because I've never done file access with streams.