Charactor Array Problems

[ilikepython]

I am having trouble with this little piece of code:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <cstdlib>
 
using namespace std;
 
string getword(string wordlist[]);
 
 
int main() {
    string wordlist[] = {"robbery", "soccer", "antibiotics"};
    char word[20] = getword(wordlist);
    cout << word << endl;
    system("PAUSE");
    return 0;}
 
 
 
 
 
 
string getword(string wordlist[]){
       srand((unsigned)time(0));
       int num = rand()%3;   // needs to be length of list
       string word;
       word = wordlist[num];
       return word;}
 

The error that I'm getting is this : "invalid initializer" on line 13.
Can somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong and where the problem is??
I'm sorry if it's really obvious but I'm new to C++.

Thanks in advance

[DeMan]

Try dropping the size from your word array. That is try

 char word[] = getword(wordlist);
 

[ilikepython]

Try dropping the size from your word array. That is try

 char word[] = getword(wordlist);
 

I already tried that and it says : "initializer fails to determine size of word"
and the previous error

Any other ideas ?

[DeMan]

why not declare it as

string word = getword(wordlist);
 

[ilikepython]

why not declare it as

string word = getword(wordlist);
 

Well I thought of that but since I am trying to make a hangman game, I thouhgt it would be easier to see if a letter is in a word like this:

    char letter = 'e';
    char word[] = "soccer";
    for (int x = 0; x < 6; x++){
        if (letter == word[x]){
            cout << letter << " in " << word << endl;}}
 

but is there a way to that with a string?

[DeMan]

If word is a string you can access individual characters, I think you use at as in:

word.at(i); /* You may wan to double check this returns a character, but I'm fairly confidebnt it does */
you also have size or end operators so you know if you are ate the end of a string

[ilikepython]

If word is a string you can access individual characters, I think you use at as in:

word.at(i); /* You may wan to double check this returns a character, but I'm fairly confidebnt it does */
you also have size or end operators so you know if you are ate the end of a string

It does return a character and works fine.
Thank you very much.

[DeMan]

No worries, That's what we're here for