setting up an array

[k59smooth]

I'm trying to input these letters into and array using the following an tex

[TEX]char Letters[26] ={"a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g", "h", "i", "j", "k", "l", "m", "n", "o", "p", "q", "r", "s", "t", "u", "v", "w", "x", "y", "z"};
[/TEX]

my complier has an error reading
too many initializers

Please help

[Rashakil Fol]

Get a better compiler. And post a real code example.

[vmanes]

Get a better compiler. And post a real code example.

His compiler's fine.

You're really living up to your the interests you list in your profile tonight, aren't you?

[Nick Evan]

If you're using chars, then use single quotes instead of double. Double quotes are for strings (more then 1 char).
So it would look like this:

char Letters[26] = {'a','b','c',    /*etc etc etc*/    };

But the easier way to do this, would be to initialize them as a string :

char Letters[] = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
    cout << "There are " << strlen(Letters) << " letters in the array";

output: There are 26 letters in the array Or you could use std::strings, because of the plain simplicity of it:

std::string Letters = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
cout << "There are " << Letters.size() << " letters in the array";
cout << "The first is " << Letters[0] << ", the last is " << Letters[Letters.size()-1];

output:

There are 26 letters in the array
The first is a, the last is z