Array of Stucts - Printing Strings

[gdreisen]

I'm very new to C and am working on a card game. I've got my cards and shuffle down, but I want each card to have a name.

I made my cards inside an array of structs:

struct card
{
int value;
int suits;
int points;
char name[20];
};

int main()
{
struct card deck[52];
..
..
..
..

Now I'm just trying to find a way to print out the name strings which I have defined later like this:

deck[0].name=="2 of Diamonds";
deck[1].name=="3 of Diamonds";
..
..

and now I want to print out the name of the card. This is what I have, it compiles, but doesn't print. Am I defining the string wrong? Defining the names wrong? Using the printf wrong?

printf("%s", deck[0].name);

Why won't they print right? Thanks in advance.
Greg

[iamthwee]

>deck[0].name=="2 of Diamonds";

1) using == is the wrong operator to assign variables
2) It wouldn't work with c-style strings (i think)

I would be safer to use string copy function instead, to copy it to the variable.

[dmachop]

using == operator is for comparisons especially for datatypes other than strings. Therefore, there are specialized in-built functions to copy strings. In your case, what you have to do is:

1. Type #include<string.h>
which is the header required to perform the operation below.

2. Then instead of
deck[0].name=="2 of Diamonds";
type
strcpy(deck[0].name,"2 of Diamonds");
which copies the content to deck[0].name.

Now, I think the problem is over.

Any doubts???
SNIP

[gdreisen]

Beautiful. Thank you so much!

[dmachop]

Mark it as solved if it's solved...................

[ramyasowbhagya]

hey use = instead of ==
as = to assign
and == is to compare

[nadiaekhlas]

Beautiful. Thank you so much!

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[Aia]

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[neigyl_noval]

I recommend that you
will use strcpy() to assign/copy strings in a variable.

Rather than

deck[0].name=="2 of Diamonds";

use

strcpy(deck[0].name, "2 of Diamonds")

Always use strcpy() to assign a string to a
variable. strcpy is found in string.h

[WaltP]

Why are you guys still trying to help someone who posted

Beautiful. Thank you so much!

He got his answer!

[dmachop]

Why are you guys still trying to help someone who posted

He got his answer!

You're the moderator.........Don't you have authority to close the thread???