string - "incompatible type for argument 1 of ‘strcpy’" error in C -

i writing program must define own versions of following functions:

int atoi ( const char * str ); int strcmp ( const char * str1, const char * str2 ); char * strcpy ( char * destination, const char * source ); char * strcat ( char * destination, const char * source ); char * strchr ( char * str, int character ); 

inside main function, required declare array called wordlist of type myword of size 20. then, using strtok() library function, extract each word string mystring , store in wordlist. however, keep getting error message:

incompatible type argument 1 of ‘strcpy’ 

for line:

strcpy(wordlist[i], token); 

how fix problem? far, have:

#include <stdio.h> #include <string.h>  struct myword{     char word[21];     int length; };  int main(void){     typedef struct myword myword;     int = 0;     myword wordlist[20];     char *mystring = "the cat in hat jumped on lazy fox";      char *token;     token = strtok(mystring, " ");      while(mystring != null){         strcpy(wordlist[i], token);         token = strtok(null, " ");         printf("%s\n", wordlist[i]);         i++;     }  } 

the corrected code is

#include <stdio.h> #include <string.h>  typedef struct myword{     char word[21];     int length; }myword;  int main(void){     int = 0;     myword wordlist[20];     char mystring[] = "the cat in hat jumped on lazy fox";      char *token;     token = strtok(mystring, " ");      while(token != null){         strcpy(wordlist[i].word, token);         token = strtok(null, " ");         printf("%s\n", wordlist[i].word);         i++;     }     } 

1. c-string member of struct word, must pass member strcpy , printf
2. your loop must check token returned strtok check if end of string reached
3. strtok modify string job, string must modifiable, cannot use pointer string literal.