[ROOT] How to fill tree with character string?

From: Valeriy Onuchin (onuchin@sirius.ihep.su)
Date: Thu May 04 2000 - 14:28:05 MEST 

  Hi,
is it  possible to fill tree with " a character string terminated
by the 0 character" ?
 I tried the followng macros , but both gave wrong output.
What's I'm doing wrong?
 Thanks. Regards.    Valeriy

///////////////////////////  test1.C ///////////////////////////////////////
{
   typedef struct {
      Int_t EMPNO;
      char ENAME[40];
      char JOB[40];
      Int_t MGR;
      Int_t SAL;
      Int_t DEPTNO;
   } EMP;

   static EMP emp;

   TString leafStr;
   leafStr = "EMPNO/I:ENAME/C:JOB/C:MGR/I:SAL/I:DEPTNO/I";

   //create tree
   TTree *tree = new TTree("T","EMP table");
   tree->Branch("emp",&emp,leafStr.Data());

   // filling
   emp.EMPNO = 7369;
   strcpy(emp.ENAME,"SMITH");
   strcpy(emp.JOB,"CLERK");
   emp.MGR = 7902;
   emp.SAL = 800;
   emp.DEPTNO = 20;
   tree->Fill();

   emp.EMPNO = 7499;
   strcpy(emp.ENAME,"ALLEN");
   strcpy(emp.JOB,"SALESMAN");
   emp.MGR = 7698;
   emp.SAL = 1600;
   emp.DEPTNO = 30;
   tree->Fill();

   tree->Show(0);
   tree->Show(1);
}

///////////////////////////  test2.C ///////////////////////////////////////
{
   typedef struct {
      Int_t EMPNO;
      char* ENAME;
      char* JOB;
      Int_t MGR;
      Int_t SAL;
      Int_t DEPTNO;
   } EMP;

   static EMP emp;

   TString leafStr;
   leafStr = "EMPNO/I:ENAME/C:JOB/C:MGR/I:SAL/I:DEPTNO/I";

   //create tree
   TTree *tree = new TTree("T","EMP table");
   tree->Branch("emp",&emp,leafStr.Data());

   // filling
   emp.EMPNO = 7369;
   emp.ENAME="SMITH";
   emp.JOB="CLERK";
   emp.MGR = 7902;
   emp.SAL = 800;
   emp.DEPTNO = 20;
   tree->Fill();

   emp.EMPNO = 7499;
   emp.ENAME="ALLEN";
   emp.JOB="SALESMAN";
   emp.MGR = 7698;
   emp.SAL = 1600;
   emp.DEPTNO = 30;
   tree->Fill();

   tree->Show(0);
   tree->Show(1);
}

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