Using the equality operator == to compare two strings for equality in C

Question

int main (int argc, **argv)
{
       if (argv[1] == \"-hello\")
            printf(\"True\\n\");
       else
            printf(\"False\\n\");
}

Answer 1

You can't compare strings in C with ==, because the C compiler does not really have a clue about strings beyond a string-literal.

The compiler sees a comparison with a char* on either side, so it does a pointer comparison (which compares the addresses stored in the pointers)