Char array in a struct - incompatible assignment?

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I tried to find out what a struct really 'is' and hit a problem, so I have really 2 questions:

1) What is saved in 'sara'? Is it a pointer to the first element of the struct?

2) The more interesting question: Why doesn't it compile? GCC says "test.c:10: error: incompatible types in assignment" and I can't figure out why... (This part has been solved by your answers already, great!)

#include <stdio.h>

struct name {
    char first[20];
    char last[20];
};

int main() {
    struct name sara;
    sara.first = "Sara";
    sara.last = "Black";
    printf("struct direct: %x\n",sara);

    printf("struct deref: %x\t%s\n", *sara, *sara);


}

Thanks for your help!

struct char c
8 Answers

You can try in this way. I had applied this in my case. 

#include<stdio.h>

struct name
{

  char first[20];

  char last[30];

};

//globally

// struct name sara={"Sara","Black"};

int main()

 {

//locally

struct name sara={"Sara","Black"};


printf("%s",sara.first);

printf("%s",sara.last);

}
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