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POWhy am I getting an error with regards to char arrays inside of a linked list?
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copied!<p>Just trying to wrap my head around linked lists. I'm getting an error "incompatile types when assigning to type char[50]" also "string constant is too long" And finally invalid type argument '->' in the last struct. What do I need to fix? </p> <pre><code>#include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <ctype.h> #include <string.h> struct trainset { char name[50]; int price; struct trainset *next; }; void show_list(struct trainset *list); int main (void){ struct trainset *root; root = (struct trainset *)malloc(sizeof(struct trainset)); strncpy(root ->name, " ", 50); root ->price = 0; root ->next = 0; struct trainset *first_train; first_train = (struct trainset *) malloc(sizeof(struct trainset)); root ->next = first_train; strncpy(first_train->name, "Fantasy Train Set", 50); first_train->price = 129; first_train->next = NULL; struct trainset *second_train; second_train = (struct trainset *)malloc(sizeof(struct trainset)); first_train->next = second_train; strncpy(first_train->name, "Uncle Bobs train set", 50); second_train ->price = 69; second_train ->next = NULL; struct trainset *third_train; third_train = (struct trainset *)malloc(sizeof(struct trainset)); second_train->next = third_train; strncpy(third_train ->name, "Budha Bread Train", 50); third_train ->price = 169; third_train ->next = NULL; show_list(first_train); return 0; } void show_list(struct trainset *list) { while(list->next!=NULL) { printf("train set name: %s, Train price: %d\n", list->name, list->price); list = list->next; } printf("train set name: %s, train price: %d", list->name, list->price); } </code></pre>

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