[Error] too many initializers for char array

[shoaib yehya]

Hey seniors,

I am facing a problem of initialization of character array, it gives error of too much initializer.

  int n=12;
	char *ptr;
	char array[n]= {"Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"};
	ptr=array;

[highwayman]

I’m not a senior but I can see you’re trying to initialize a char [12] to a char[12][3]

[lastchance]

Duplicate of this post ...
http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/general/264012/#msg1138266

[George P]

Line 3 would work if you were creating a std::string array.

A 2D char array, as highwayman said, is what you are trying to create.