How to compare strings in an if statement

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I want to test and see if a variable of type  char  can compare with a regular string like  cheese  for a comparison like    include  lt stdio h gt   int main         char favoriteDairyProduct 30        scanf   s  favoriteDairyProduct        if favoriteDairyProduct     cheese                 printf  You like cheese too               else               printf  I like cheese more                return 0       What I actually want to do is much longer than this but this is the main part I m stuck on   So how would one compare two strings in C

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You can t compare array of characters using    operator  You have to use string compare functions  Take a look at Strings  c-faq       The standard library s strcmp function compares two strings  and returns 0 if they are identical  or a negative number if the first string is alphabetically  less than  the second string  or a positive number if the first string is  greater

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if  strcmp favoriteDairyProduct   cheese          printf  You like cheese too       else       printf  I like cheese more

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Have a look at the functions strcmp and strncmp

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You re looking for the function strcmp  or strncmp from string h   Since strings are just arrays  you need to compare each character  so this function will do that for you   if  strcmp favoriteDairyProduct   cheese      0        printf  You like cheese too       else       printf  I like cheese more         Further reading  strcmp at cplusplus com

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if strcmp aString  bString     0         strings are the same     godspeed

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