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Tommy Thompson
Tommy Thompson

Reputation: 11

Expected expression before char in C

enter image description hereenter image description hereI am doing a word search program and keep getting the same error that doesn't give me much information about whats wrong. Specifically it says this...

wordSearch.c:38:32: error: expected
  expression

returnWord = (char *) strstr(char const *sentence, char const *phrase); ^
^
what could this be?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1093

Answers (2)

byrnesj1
byrnesj1

Reputation: 311

Based on the pictures, it looks as if something is wrong with strstr. This makes sense because of the way you are passing arguments. strstr expects two const char * arguments, however you have casted them incorrectly. Additionally, since strstr already returns a char * there is no need to cast that. Thus, line 38 should be returnword = strstr((const char *) sentence, (const char *) phrase);

Upvotes: 0

Sourav Ghosh
Sourav Ghosh

Reputation: 134366

returnWord = char *strstr(const char *sentence, const char *phrase);

is not how you call a function. Get rid of the return type, simply use

returnWord = strstr(sentence, phrase);

assuming sentence and phrase are variables are defined and having proper values.

Upvotes: 3

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