Too many initializers for char b[]

Question

It is morse code program.
I am getting error of too many initializers for char b[]. How can I get rid of this error?

#include<iostream>
using namespace std;

int main(){
    char a[72]={'A','a','B','b','C','c','D','d','E','e','F','f','G','g','H','h','I','i','J','j','K','k','L','l','M','m','N','n','O','o','P','p','Q','q','R','r','S','s','T','t','U','u','V','v','W','w','X','x','Y','y','z','Z','0','1','2','3','4','5','6','7','8','9','.',',','?','\'','!','/','(',')','&','@'};
    char b[]={".-",".-","-...","-...","-.-.","-.-.","-..","-..",".",".","..-.","..-.","--.","--.","....","....","..","..",".---",".---","-.-","-.-",".-..",".-..","--","--","-.","-.","---","---",".--.",".--.","--.-","--.-",".-.",".-.","...","...","-","-","..-","..-","...-","...-",".--",".--","-..-","-..-","-.--","-.--","--..","--..","-----","-----",".----",".----","..---","..---","...--","...--","....-","....-",".....",".....","-....","-....","--...","--...","---..","---..","----.","----.",".-.-.-",".-.-.-","--..--","--..--","..--..","..--..",".----.",".----.","-.-.-","-.-.--","-..-.","-..-.","-.--.","-.--.","-.--.-","-.--.-",".-...",".-..."};

    char c[40]; 
    cout<<"Enter code ";
    cin.getline(c,40);
    for(int i=0;i<1;i++){
        for(int j=0;j<72;j++){ 
            if(b[j]==c[i]){
                cout<<a[j];
            }
        }
    }
    return 0;
}

Answer 1

You have said that b is an array of char. But you are supplying string literals rather than individual characters. It's impossible to know what you really mean to do. Perhaps you actually want b to be an array of strings:

const char* b[] = {".-", ".-", "-...", "-...", ...};