invalid conversion from ‘char*’ to ‘char’

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Published on 2010-04-07T16:31:11Z Indexed on 2010/04/07 16:33 UTC
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Hi Guys,

I have a,

int main (int argc, char *argv[])

and one of the arguements im passing in is a char. It gives the error message in the title when i go to compile

How would i go about fixing this?

Regards

Paul

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