Can't assign C++ array - c++

Question

Context: Need to set verts in TestTextures3SpriteObj s1 to the verts1 array. Gives me an error "expression must be modifiable lvalue". After its copied the vertices will be sent to the GPU as buffer data with OpenGL and GLUT.
Only relevant excerpts of code included
#pragma once
class TestTextures3SpriteObj
{
public:
int spriteid;
int vao;
int texid;
float verts[];
};
const float verts1[] = { 0.5 ,0.5, 0.0, 0.9, 0.5, 0.3, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0,
0.5, -0.5, 0.0, 0.3, 0.3, 0.9, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0,
-0.5, -0.5, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 1.0,
-0.5, 0.5, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 };
TestTextures3SpriteObj s1;
s1.verts = verts1;

Answer 1

Actually you are not accessing the variable ...
if you want access individual element, use index
s1.verts1[0]
If you want to copy use std::copy
std::copy(verts1, verts1 + 36, s1.verts);

Answer 2

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
class TestTextures3SpriteObj
{
public:
int spriteid;
int vao;
int texid;
float verts[36]; //assign the size to the array
};
const float verts1[] = { 0.5 ,0.5, 0.0, 0.9, 0.5, 0.3, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0,
0.5, -0.5, 0.0, 0.3, 0.3, 0.9, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0,
-0.5, -0.5, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 1.0,
-0.5, 0.5, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 };
int main()
{
TestTextures3SpriteObj s1;
int len=sizeof(verts1)/sizeof(verts1[0]);
//copies the entire array to the object with member verts
std::copy(verts1, verts1 + 36, s1.verts);
//printing the values in the s1 object
for(int i=0;i<len;i++)
{
cout<<s1.verts[i]<<" ";
}
}
Assign a size to the array in the class and then later perform the std::copy to copy the values in the verts array.