Structures and Arrays in C

[JaySun]

I am supposed to create a structure and an array that will hold 4 occurences of the structure. I am having a difficult time with assigning the values to the array. Yes this is a class assignment, I really do not need to hear about hurricanes these days! Here is a bit of the code:

 #include <stdio.h>
 
 int main (void)
 {
 	struct hurricane
	{
		char hurricane_name[10];
		int category;
		int max_windspeed;
		char month[10];
		int day;
		char landfall[20];
	}h[4];
	
	h[0].hurricane_name[10] = "Charley";
	h[0].category = 4;
	h[0].max_windspeed = 145;
	h[0].month = "August";
	h[0].day = 13;
	h[0].landfall = "Charlotte Co.";
     
        return 0;
}

The code further goes on to add 3 more hurricanes into the array and then just print them out (which I have no issue with). Why is my syntax wrong. As always help is appreciated!

[Valmont]

In C or C++?

[JaySun]

C

[JaySun]

I tried using strcpy to store the values of the strings into the array and that seems to be working.

Thanks

[redhead]

Here is one in C, try to compare it with yours and see where your assignments went wrong.

#include <stdio.h>

typedef struct hurricane
{
  char hurricane_name[10];
  int category;
  int max_windspeed;
  char month[10];
  int day;
  char landfall[20];
}hurricane;


int main (void)
{
  hurricane h[4];
  strcpy(h[0].hurricane_name,"Charley");
  h[0].category = 4;
  h[0].max_windspeed = 145;
  strcpy(h[0].month, "August");
  h[0].day = 13;
  strcpy(h[0].landfall, "Charlotte Co.");

  /* see if it was filled correct */
  printf("Hurricane name: %s\n", h[0].hurricane_name);
  printf("Hurricane category: %d\n", h[0].category);
  printf("Hurricane max_windspeed: %d\n", h[0].max_windspeed);
  printf("Hurricane month: %s\n", h[0].month);
  printf("Hurricane day: %d\n", h[0].day);
  printf("Hurricane landfall: %s\n", h[0].landfall);
  return 0;
}