C comparing pointers (with chars)

Question

Good evening, I have 2 functions and each of them accepts as argument a pointer to char:

char pointer[255];
func1(char* pointer)
{
...
memcpy(pointer,some_ch         


        

Answer 1

You need to use strcmp. Not seeing how you tried to use it, this is how you should use it:

char *someother_char = "a";
char *pointer = "a";

if (strcmp(pointer, someother_char) == 0) { // match!
}
else { // not matched 
}

to then do the comparison with a char, you have to promote to a char*:

char *someother_char1;
char test = 'a';
char *pointer = "a";

strncpy((char*)test,someother_char1,sizeof(test));

if (strcmp(pointer, someother_char1) == 0) { // match!
}
else { // not matched 
}

if you want to use the char array then you have to de-reference:

char char_array[255];
// don't forget to fill your array
// and add a null-terminating char somewhere, such as char_array[255] = '\0';
char *ptr_somechar = &char_array[0];
char *pointer = "a";

if (strcmp(pointer, ptr_somechar) == 0) { // match!
} else { // not matched
}