Why this code is not running? Why str1 is not assigned to str2 ?? I know i have an option of using strcpy but i wish to know the reason why this is not working?? #include<stdio.h> int main() { char str1[]="hello"; char str2[10]; str2=str1; printf("%s",str2); return 0; } Whereas if I use pointers than it works like here.. #include<stdio.h> int main() ( char *s="good morning"; char *q; q=s; while(*q!='\0') { printf("%c",*q); q++; } return 0; } This works. Now the string has been copied via pointers so why such difference??