char-array

how to use char* as char[]

Hello, I have a struct like this typedef struct bookStruct { char title[80]; char author[80]; } BookType; And I have two strings like this char *title = "A Book on C"; char *author = "A. Kelly"; Now I can't create a BookType like this BookType book = {title, author}; Can anyone tell me what is wrong? How can I do that? ...

Why does this C++ code result in a segmentation fault?

I keep getting a segmentation fault when the readAuthor() method is called. Does anybody know why this happens? I am supposed to use dynamic arrays, I know this would be so easy if I was using static array. #include <iostream> #include <string> #include <cstring> #include <cstdlib> using namespace std; /** declare arrays **/ int* isbn...