how to initialize arrays properly?

[Michael Thornton]

i have recently been struggling with arrays on my bloodshed dev-cpp compiler - according to Bjarne Stroustrups book, i should be able initialize arrays like this: char letters[26] = {"a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f" "g"...}. However, this is a supposed invalid conversion from const *char to char. I have realized that this works for me -

    char letters[26] = {"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"};

as does this
char letters[52] = {"a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z"};
I was presuming that Stroustrups methods would work - his way of initializing arrays is common across the web, and in other books. Also, the escape thingymagiggy \0 doesn't seem to make a difference
I was just wondering whether i'm wrong, or if c++ has evolved again. If i am wrong, what are the pros and cons of doing it my way(why can it be done several ways?)?.
Thanks
Mike

[Peter87]

Double quotes are for strings. Use single quotes for chars. char letters[26] = {'a', 'b', 'c' ...}

[Michael Thornton]

Oh, ok. thankyou, i feel silly