C or C++. How to compare two strings given char * pointers?

Question

I am sorting my array of car two ways. one by year which is shown below. and another one by make. Make is a char* How do I compare strings when I just have pointers to the

Answer 1

In pretty much either one, the way is to call strcmp. If your strings (for some weird reason) aren't NUL terminated, you should use strncmp instead.

However, in C++ you really shouldn't be manipulating strings in char arrays if you can reasonably avoid it. Use std::string instead.