Question

I’m having trouble removing the first two characters from my char array.

 input[MAXSIZE] = "./hello";

 for(int i = 2; i < MAXSIZE; i+=2)
 {
    strcpy(input[i-2],input[i]);
 }

and I’m getting the following errors:

 invalid conversion from ‘char’ to ‘char*’
 initializing argument 1 of ‘char* strcpy(char*, const char*)’
 invalid conversion from ‘char’ to ‘const char*’
 initializing argument 2 of ‘char* strcpy(char*, const char*)’

I know that this is a very basic problem but im fairly new to this.
Also if there is an easier way to get around this problem feel free to educate me.

Answer 1

strcpy copies null terminated char arrays, not characters.

What you want is:

input[i-2] = input[i];

Also, why don’t you increment i with 1 but with 2?