You might want to brush up on your C pointers, this is a reasonable resource: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/C_Programming
Basically you need to copy your string into your buffer, both errors you show are attempts at pointer assignment which is a different beast. The string.h functions should be available to do the copies. MS Tuan Ta wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to nesC and TinyOS. I'm trying to send packet over the radio > with payload is a fixed-size string. When I used char[MAX_STR_LEN] in my > message structure, I received an error saying char[] is not a network > type. So I switched to uint8_t[MAX_STR_LEN]. > > However, in my module implementation, > uint8_t str[100]; > str = "Hello"; > or > str = (uint8_t*) "Hello"; > > both gave me an "invalid lvalue in assignment" error. > > What is the best way to manipulate strings in nesC? Can I use C > functions in "string.h" such as strcat(), itoa(),...? > > Thank you very much, > > Johnny > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Tinyos-help mailing list > Tinyos-help@millennium.berkeley.edu > https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-help _______________________________________________ Tinyos-help mailing list Tinyos-help@millennium.berkeley.edu https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-help
