function set..dont now how to do it???

[ARWA]

hi, im stucked in doing the function set of my class which takes to daynamic arrays as data member ...now if the client prog wants to set the 2 data members
which are of type pointer to char array, he will insert a string how to do this
here are my codes if any one can help me.
class:

class employee
{
private:
	char *firstName;
	char *lastName;
...};

definition of the set first name:

void employee::setFname(string Fname)
{
	firstName= new char[strlen(Fname)+1];//strlen will give us the lenght of the string without the null charectar so +1
	//copy the string firstN to firstName
	strcpy(firstName,Fname);
    
}

it gives me an erorr of cannot convert string to char.....

what should i do?
thanks in advance.

[sohguanh]

You define string Fname as a variable of string data-type. Then you define char *firstName as char* data-type. With different data-types of cuz you cannot use strcpy.

First ask yourself. You want to play with char * or string ? When you decide on which data-type then we can use the appropriate functions that act on them.

Btw, strcpy is acting on char * not C++ string.

[ARWA]

i should play with char* ,and im confused because the input name will be
string ?!!!

[sohguanh]

If you want to play with char*, C++ string has a method called c_str() which return the char* of the string.

E.g
firstName= new char[strlen(Fname.c_str())+1];
strcpy(firstName,Fname.c_str());

[ARWA]

ok, thanks i will try it ^__^