I can't store a string of characters in a node of linked list

Question

I'm doing my coursework regarding airport simulation and I'm having some troubles trying to store information in the character array part.

I am supposed to type in a string of character and it will store in the planeName part of the node but it can't seem to work. My int main() is pretty much empty now because I didn't want to continue coding with incorrect functions.

Below are my codes:

struct node {
    char planeName[5];
    int planeNumber;
    struct node* next;
}; 

struct node* front = NULL;
struct node* rear = NULL;

void Enqueue(char name[5], int x);

int main() {

}

void Enqueue(char name[5], int x){

    struct node* temp = (struct node*)malloc(sizeof(struct node));

    temp -> planeName = name; 
    temp -> planeNumber = x;
    temp -> next = NULL;

    if (front == NULL && rear == NULL)
        front = rear = temp;
    rear -> next = temp; //set address of rear to address of temp
    rear = temp; //set rear to point to temp

    return;
}

This is the error message in the line containing: temp -> planeName = name

This is the part where error message pops up and I have no clue why is this happening.

Can someone please help and ask more questions me if my question is not clear enough?

Answer 1

temp -> planeName = name;

You can't assign to an array. Array cannot be used as lvalue. Use strcpy instead-

strcpy(temp -> planeName,name);

Note- But make sure your char arrays are nul terminated before passing them to strcpy.