MQTT Arduino client.publish with Generated Topic

[kolbep]

Hi All.
I am working on a similar system to SuperHouse's Alarm IO Shield, as a proof of concept,

I know you can do the following in Arduino :

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client.publish("topic/1", "ALARM");
client.publish("topic/2", "ALARM"); 

But I am trying to shave my code down to make it more modular.
I want to generate the topic number automatically based on the iteration i am in in a loop, so I am trying the following :

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     for (int channelno = 0; channelno < 8; channelno++) {
          --- Additional code ---
          char pubstring = "alarm/"+channelno;
          client.publish(pubstring, "ALARM");

What I expect it to do is the same, for each iteration of the loop, publish to a different topic,
eg : First Iteration : Topic = topic/1 Message = ALARM
Second Iteration : Topic = topic/2 Message = ALARM
etc

but I am getting stuck, it looks like the client.publish is looking for a const char for the topic and message,
it gives me the following error :

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In file included from C:\Users\User\Documents\Arduino\AlarmMonster1\AlarmMonster1.ino:7:0:

C:\Users\User\Documents\Arduino\libraries\PubSubClient\src/PubSubClient.h:130:12: error:   initializing argument 1 of 'boolean PubSubClient::publish(const char*, const char*)' [-fpermissive]

    boolean publish(const char* topic, const char* payload);

            ^

exit status 1
invalid conversion from 'const char*' to 'char' [-fpermissive]

Any ideas of the workaround
I am sure it is something simple, but I am stumped
Thanks