J.A.Serralheiro writes: > It seems that the compiler as some dificulties assigning *dest++ = *src++ > when dest is a char *ptr = "kljdflg". But when src is this kind
Yes, this will not work, because char* ptr should really be something like char const* ptr. That is, a pointer to a constant char, because this is what it really is. "kljdflg" is not on the heap, but on some static portion of memory somewhere, which you are not allowed to write to, but are trying to do with the strcpy. Incidentally, you should always use strncpy, instead of strcpy. You can also use memcpy. Andrew.
