Question

so I want to copy a char pointer, asked a friend and he said to use memcpy… so I am trying to do this:

charFilenameAndPath=strtok(filename,".");
memcpy=(charFilename,charFilenameAndPath, sizeof(charFilenameAndPath));

and the compiler is spitting out this:

uTrackSpheres.cpp:176: error: assignment of function ‘void* memcpy(void*, const void*, size_t)’
uTrackSpheres.cpp:176: error: cannot convert ‘unsigned int’ to ‘void*(void*, const void*, size_t)throw ()’ in assignment

I also tried using strlen instead of sizeof

Answer 1

In your second line:

memcpy=(charFilename,charFilenameAndPath, sizeof(charFilenameAndPath));

there is a spurious = sign.

Once you fix that, your call is not correct anyway. charFilenameAndPath is the return value from strtok(), so it must be a char *. So, you are copying sizeof(char *) bytes to charFilename, you probably want strlen(charFilenameAndPath)+1 bytes instead (or you can use strcpy()). In any case, you should make sure that strtok() didn’t return NULL and that charFilename has enough space.