Identifier expected and assignment makes pointer from int without cast

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Identifier expected and assignment makes pointer from int without cast

Posted 10 February 2011 - 03:58 PM

Hi, I am fairly new to C so compilation errors i am still trying to understand.
Two errors:
Identifier expected and assignment makes pointer from int without cast problem on this line.

	int isThere = contains("linux",x);


Any help would be appreciated, Thank you.
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Re: Identifier expected and assignment makes pointer from int without cast

Posted 11 February 2011 - 11:50 AM

Since this appears to be straight C, and it's posted in Objective-C, I'm moving this to C and C++.

We need more information about the exact error, the function prototype for contains, and the datatype of x.
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Re: Identifier expected and assignment makes pointer from int without cast

Posted 12 February 2011 - 04:35 AM

Hi, sorry for the mistakes.
//contains prototype
int contains(char target[], char source[])
{
	char * x = strstr(source, target);
	if(x != NULL) return 1;
	else return 0;
}


These two are within the main method in a for loop.
x is of type int.
	int isThere = contains("linux", x);


Thanks.

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Re: Identifier expected and assignment makes pointer from int without cast

Posted 12 February 2011 - 04:48 AM

If x is an int, how can you pass it to a char source[] parameter ?
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Re: Identifier expected and assignment makes pointer from int without cast

Posted 12 February 2011 - 07:05 AM

A fair point...that was embarrassing. Thank you :)
Ok, so i switched the line to this,

	char isThere = contains("linux", char * x);


This removes the pointer problem. Just an identifier to fix.
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