my private members in my class:
const char arr1[];
const char arr2[];
my constructor:
className(const char a[], const char b[])
:arr1(a), arr2(b)
{
}
The error message from console window is:
In constructor className::className(const char*, const char*):
error: incompatible types in assignment of const char* to const char [0]
Please help, what am I doing wrong?
On a side note, I found a solution... I used pointers as my private member vars, so *arr1 and *arr2 and that worked. :)
You are declaring your members as const char arr1[]. I am suprised that the compiler is even allowing you to make that declaration, as it should have had a fixed size in that form (like const char arr1[512]).
Depending on what you want to do, you'll either have to:
const char* arr1 -- note that this will not copy the strings; orstd::string) and/or allocate memory for the class member, and copy
First of all, you compiler should already choke on declarations of the members:
const char arr1[];
const char arr2[];
That's illegal C++, arrays as class members need to have their size spelled out.
Second, const char p[], when used in function declarations, literaly means const char* p. That is, a pointer to constant char. Arrays are not pointers, don't confuse the two. They decay to a pointer to their first element when passed to functions, though.
