I had thought to have answered that question.  The C construct

char text character[] = 'Lincoln''s Doctor''s Dog' ;

does jobs of that sort.

--jg

On 9/4/12, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 15:01:37 -0400, Thomas David Rivers wrote:
>>
>>   cxx: t.c line 3:Error #144: a value of type "const char [7]" cannot
>>be used to initialize an entity of type "char [6]"
>>     char s6[ 6 ] = "wombat";
>>
> Is there any convenient way to perform this initialization?  (I don't
> consider either overallocating the array or enumerating individual
> chars in a multiple initializer convenient.)
>
> Thanks,
> gil
>
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