string to char array

Using Arduino Programming Questions
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Hi again, been a while since I've posted although I do read alot here.
I need a little help, I want to get away from using Strings and go with char arrays.
I can figure most of it but I got this bit of code that I can't seem to avoid using a string.

String cyear;
char cyear1[8];

cyear = year();
cyear.toCharArray(cyear1, sizeof(cyear1));

year() comes from the rtc and this works fine, I just wonder if theres any way to put
it into the char array without first putting it into a string.

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What type of data does year() return ?

3

year() is one of the fields that comes from getting the time date from the rtc.
The string year() has 4 digits of the current year.
I then use the cyear1[] char array to make a year folder on the SDcard.
Like so,
if (!SD.exists(cyear1)){
SD.mkdir(cyear1);
SD.chdir(cyear1);
lcd.setCursor(0, 1);
lcd.print (" Created year ");
delay1();

4

OK. so maybe year() is an int?
cause if I try..

year().toCharArray(cyear1, sizeof(cyear1));

I get..

error: request for member 'toCharArray' in 'year()', which is of non-class type 'int'

5

OK. so maybe year() is an int?

Yes it is.

You can use itoa() to convert the integer into a null terminated character array.

char buf[5];
itoa(year(), buf, 10);
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Thanks for that, It works.. Sometimes it's just that simple. But then I've chased my tail around for days cause I was missing a bracket.