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STOPIMACODER

Reputation: 822

Building Chess game?

I'm trying to build a basic text chess game. Currently in every array position, i'm trying to enter a 2 character word. P1 is first player's pawn. Its giving me incompatible pointer to integer conversion error on the strcpy function line.

I tried to use ChessArray[firstCounter][secCounter] = 'P1'; but it did not work and give me an error.

NOTE: I know a lot of people will say its better to use another language to make this game but i wanted to practice my C skills.

code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main(int argc, const char * argv[]) {

    char ChessArray[8][8];
    for (int firstCounter = 0; firstCounter <= 7; firstCounter++)
    {
        for (int secCounter = 0; secCounter <= 7; secCounter++)
        {
            strcpy(ChessArray[firstCounter][secCounter],"p");
        }
    }
    printf(" |A |B |C |D |E |F |G |H |\n");
    for (int firstCounters = 0; firstCounters <= 7; firstCounters++)
    {
        printf("%i", firstCounters);
        for (int secCounters = 0; secCounters <= 7; secCounters++)
        {
            printf("| ");
            printf("%c",ChessArray[firstCounters][secCounters]);
        }
        printf("|");
        printf("%i",firstCounters);
        printf("\n");
    }
    printf(" |A |B |C |D |E |F |G |H |\n");
    return 0;
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 427

Answers (1)

Gabe Sechan
Gabe Sechan

Reputation: 93559

You're confusing a char* and char. Your ChessArray is an array of array of characters. Not an array of array of char*. A string in double quotes is a char*. A single character in single quotes is a character. Strcpy works with char*, not with characters, and it can't copy data into a character. Either you want to make it a char *ChessArray[][], or you want to use ChessArray[firstCounter][secCounter] = 'p'.

Note that if you use the char* ChessArray[][] version you have to allocate the memory each of those char* at each of those indices holds with malloc before you pass it to strcpy the first time.

Upvotes: 4

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