Incompatible types: cannot convert from

[peedalein]

Greetings,

I am trying to write a simple code that is placed in global script and returns a random string.

My first step was to write the following code.

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char RandomStringTest()
{
    char random="test";
    return random;
}

However, this gives me the following error "Incompatible types: cannot convert from 'const * char' to 'char'"

What do I need to do that the code returns "test"?

[lcl]

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char random[255];

char * RandomStringTest()
{
    sprintf(random, "test");
    return random;
}

This code works.
You have to make the string as global variable. That's the first line in my code.
Then the function must be declared with * 'cause it returns string.
Then, the sprintf function sets random's text to be test.
And then the code returns random.

I hope this helped you!

[peedalein]

Hi,

the code helped. Thanks a lot for your effort.

However, I encountered some new problem.

I would like the code to randomly return one of the two strings but I get an error message -> Flow reaches end of non-void function "RandomStringTest".

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char random1[255];
char random2[255];
int randomnumber;

char * RandomStringTest()

    {
    randomnumber = rand(2);
 
    sprintf(random2, "notest");
    sprintf(random1, "test");
 
    if(randomnumber == 0) {
    return random1;};

    if(randomnumber == 1) {
    return random2;};

[lcl]

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char temp[255];

char * RandomStringTest()
{
    int randomnumber = rand(2);
 
    switch(randomnumber)
    {
        case 0:
            sprintf(temp, "test");
        break;
 
        case 1:
            sprintf(temp, "notest");
        break;
    }

    return temp;
}

This code works.