[OCLUG-devel] invalid initializer?

James Colannino james at colannino.org
Mon Jul 5 19:57:57 PDT 2004


Hey everyone.  I know that you can do, say, the following:

char string[] = "Hello";

But, I tried the following:

char filename[] = argv[1];

This resulted in the following compiler error:

error: invalid initializer

What does this mean?  I thought that you could assign a string to a 
variable-length character array at the time you initialize it.  Am I 
missing something?

James
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