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I get an error message saying that “The left side of = must be a modifiable lvalue” or “error: non-lvalue in assignment”. Whats a modifiable lvalue?

April 26, 2017Error Left message modifiable

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I get an error message saying that “The left side of = must be a modifiable lvalue” or “error: non-lvalue in assignment”. Whats a modifiable lvalue?

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– A value that can be modified and can be on the left of an assignment statement. A statement like “7 = i” (or “i = 7” if “i” is a const) would provoke such a message. Perhaps you have something like “if (7=i)” where you meant to have “if (7==i)”.