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

Because there is no such thing as a C string.

In C, a string is usually an array of char, or a pointer to char (which is nearly the same). Comparing a pointer/array to a const array won't give the expected results.

UPDATE: what I meant by 'no C string' is, there is no string in C. What's usually referred to as a 'C string' is language independent (as 'Pascal string' is), it's the representation of strings as a null-terminated linear array of characters.