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Article #14207Re: How to assign text to a char *buffer ?
From: Norm Jaffe
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 22:48
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 22:48
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[snip] > If you declare a buffer without initializing it, such as > char* Buffer; > > You cannot use the assignment operator to initialize it: > Buffer = "Your string 1"; // Error > This is perfectly legal. > You can use strcpy() or strncpy() later to initialize it Not unless you allocated storage with new[] or malloc. Norm Jaffe.
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