assinging strings to two dimensional array

[Reginald Carlier]

Hi,

I'm programming a game and one of the variables is a two dimensional
array in wich I store the names of the players. So far so good; with
cin.get I ask the names of the players and everything works fine.
Now I want the player also to be able to play against the computer and
I don't want him to fill in the name "computer" interactively; I want to
set the second element of the two-dimensional array to computer.
When i do
player[2][30];
player[1]="computer";
I get an error that the compiler can not convert from a char[9] type to
a char[30] type wich I can understand.
but when i do
player[1][0]={'c'}; the comiler complains of missing ;

Does anyone know how to solve this problem?
The goal is to get a two dimensional array containing the name of the
first player in the first array. (this is done with cin.get(player[0],max)
In the second I want to store the name computer.

Reginald

 

[Pete C.]

Hi,

I'm programming a game and one of the variables is a two dimensional
array in wich I store the names of the players. So far so good; with
cin.get I ask the names of the players and everything works fine.
Now I want the player also to be able to play against the computer
and
I don't want him to fill in the name "computer" interactively; I want
to set the second element of the two-dimensional array to computer.
When i do
player[2][30];
player[1]="computer";
I get an error that the compiler can not convert from a char[9] type
to
a char[30] type wich I can understand.
but when i do
player[1][0]={'c'}; the comiler complains of missing ;

Does anyone know how to solve this problem?
The goal is to get a two dimensional array containing the name of the
first player in the first array. (this is done with
cin.get(player[0],max) In the second I want to store the name
computer.

Reginald

strcpy(player[1], "computer");

But, I would suggest using vectors and strings instead:

#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include <iostream>

std::vector<std::string> player(2);
std::getline(std::cin, player[0]);
player[1] = "computer";

All memory management is automatic, you can resize the array
(player.resize(length), and there is no risk of the strings being to long
(as long as they can fit in your memory).

- Pete