[plug] [OT] Arg!! C Pointers on Char Arrays

[Timothy White]

I am having some problems with pointers in C. Now I don't want someone
to say go to C++ or something like that. I am using someone else's code
and adding parts to get it to do what I want.

Basically I have a struct of form:
struct critter
  {
    const char *name;
    const char *species;
  };

and I define a global array of this struct.:
struct critter muppets[100];

Later on I have a loop in main that reads in 'critters' into the array.
  while(1) {
        fscanf(BAD, "%s\n", &word);
        if(!strcmp("#",word))break;
        printf("%d:Adding word '%s'\n", count, word);
        muppets[count].name = word;
        muppets[count].species = word;
        count++;
  }

The problem is putting the data into the array. I understand that I have
an array of pointers and word is also a pointer. SO by doing it like I
have I am copying the pointer so I end up with all the muppets pointing
to the same bit of memory which is the # as that is the last character.
This I obviously don't want. I want to copy the data not the pointer.
Every combination of * & and -> that I have tried fails. I also tried
strcpy but got nowhere: (All below failed)
        strcpy(muppets[count].name,word);
        &muppets[count].name = word;
        &muppets[count].species = word;

Anyone please point out my simple mistake. It's been /way/ too long
since I programmed in C and have gotten used to perl and PHP style again.

Tim

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