Re: strings and char *

[Luca Masini <lmasini@xxxxxx>]

Michael Surette wrote:

> I was having a problem with a larger program when I ran into a problem.  The
> following code snippet should work according to what I remember of C. 
> What's wrong with it?
>
> ------------
>
> char * color;
> char * r="red";
> color = r;

You cannot do that in file scope.

Inside a function it works:

void f( void )
{
    char * color;
    char * r = "red";

    color = r;
}


Regards.

Luca Masini