Read two words into one char array element - c++

Question

I am trying to read in two words from text file into one char array element. I CANNOT USE std::string. I get a seg fault because my loop is looping in a way that goes out of bounds. I cannot copy in the two words. please help me do this!! My loop for card struct works perfectly. I cannot get the "first last" into the people[].name
// deck of cards
// below are initializations
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
using namespace std;
//globals
const int maxCards = 52;
//Structs
struct card {
char suit[8];
char rank[6];
int cvalue;
char location;
};
struct player {
char name[100];
int total;
card hand[4];
};
//program
int main()
{
//constants
char tempfName[100];
char templName[100];
//create struct array(s)
card deck[52];
card shuffledDeck[52];
player people[4];
//create pointers
card * deckPointer =NULL;
deckPointer = deck;
card * shuffledDeckPointer=NULL;
shuffledDeckPointer = shuffledDeck;
for(int i=0;i<4;i++)
{
strcopy(people[i].name,"first last");
}
//open player names file
ifstream fin2;
string fin2Name;
//get file name from user
cout << "Enter player file name...(Players.txt)" << endl;
getline(cin, fin2Name);
//open file
fin2.open(fin2Name.c_str());
//check if Players.txt opens correctly
if(!fin2.good())
{
cout << "Error with player file!" << endl;
return 0;
}
else
{
int j =0;
fin2 >> people[j].name; //prime file
while(fin2.good())
{
//find the length
int index =0, length=0;
while(tempfName[length] != '\0')
{
length++;
}
//now add space after first name
tempfName[length] = ' ';
length++;
while(templName[index] != '\0')
{
tempfName[length] = templName[index];
length++;
index++;
}
tempfName[length]='\0';
int counter =0;
while(templName[counter] != '\0')
{
people[0].name[counter] = templName[counter];
counter++;
}
}
}

Answer 1

it seems your tempfName is not pointing to a correct object in your while loop in else statement
else
{
int j =0;
fin2 >> people[j].name; //prime file
while(fin2.good())
{
//find the length
int index =0, length=0;
while(tempfName[length] != '\0')
{
length++;
}

Answer 2

You could do some cheating:
char full_name[256]; // Binary quantities are better.
snprintf(full_name, sizeof(full_name),
"%s %s",
first_name, last_name);
You should do more research regarding C-style string functions, like check a good reference book. It should have a chapter about the C-style string functions.
Here are some helpful ones:
strcpy, strcat, strchr, sprintf, strlen