References to structures.

[Ben Duncan]

I'm having a bit of trouble with a function that prints the entirety of a structure, but when attempting to tell the structure what the variables inside it mean, it comes up with an error, but here is the code:

void Make_Candy_Bar(CandyBar &CandyCake, const char * Name,const double Weight, const signed short Calories)
{
	CandyCake.name = *Name;
	CandyCake.weight = Weight;
	CandyCake.calories = Calories;


	cout << CandyCake.name  << ", " << CandyCake.weight << ", " << CandyCake.calories << ".\n";
}

I'm getting an error here:
CandyCake.name = *Name;

It's under the CandyCake.name; the error shown is this:

Error:expression must be a modifiable lvalue

If any more information is needed or you think you have a solution, please let me know.

Thanks,

Ben.

[Athar]

name is probably a char array instead of a std::string.

[Ben Duncan]

They are both char's.

That is

CandyBar.name (or CandyCake.name) is a char array
and Name is a char.

[Athar]

Yeah, you can't assign C arrays to each other.
Change both types to std::string.

[Ben Duncan]

Okay, thanks!